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Effect of laser light on matter. Laser plasmas

Optical strength of mirrors on fluorite substrates subjected to cw radiation from a chemical CO laser

V. A. Dudkin, V. B. Rukhin

Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: Optimisation of the energy characteristics of a chemical CO laser revealed damage to the optical resonator mirrors. Estimates indicated that when the power density of the incident cw laser radiation was 2–2.5 kW cm^–2 the induced thermoelastic stresses could reach the damage threshold of mirrors on fluorite substrates.

PACS: 42.79.Bh, 42.55.Ks

Received: 20.04.1993

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1994, 24:2, 143–144

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