Marek STEHLIK thesis defense entitled "Laser damage resistance of coating materials and structures for grating-waveguides" will be on Wednesday October 26th at 02:00 p.m. in amphithéâtre PONTE
This thesis was supervised by Laurent GALLAIS and Frank WAGNER from ILM team of the Institut Fresnel. & you can join the event via ZOOM :
https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/86075691318?pwd=RDh0RVJtL1pYVVJxbmFzdW5yRDBMdz09
Abstract : The laser-induced damage and laser-induced contamination are phenomena limiting reliable operation of coating-based optical components in ultrashort pulse high-power lasers. To enhance the damage resistance of optical coatings, testing of various coating materials, development of optimized coating designs, and comparison between deposition methods have been done. Despite the efficient excitation of dielectric materials in sub-ps regime, indicating that laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) should not be dependent on beam size, we found that this statement is not unequivocal in the published literature. Our work on metrology with 500-fs 1030-nm laser source underlines the difficulty of LIDT measurement by very focused laser beams and we suggest beam deformation due to self-focusing in the lens as a possible explanation. We performed LIDT tests with pulsed-laser deposited crystalline sesquioxides (Sc2O3, Y2O3, Lu2O3) and amorphous metal oxides (HfO2, Nb2O5, SiO2) coated by magnetron sputtering. We found that the LIDTs of sesquioxides are comparable to each other and in the multiple pulse test regime show values close to those of widely used HfO2 coatings. Since manufacturers of diffractive optical components frequently use Ti adhesion promoter and Cr hard mask forming thin layers on optical surfaces, we analyzed effect of such treatment on LIDT. We observed that the LIDTs of treated surfaces are close to the untreated ones, when they are tested by 100 pulses. Using 700-fs 515-nm 3.3-MHz setup we studied laser-induced contamination (LIC) growth in dependence on coating material, its deposition technique and its thickness. We found a nearly linear relationship between LIC deposit thickness and SiO2 and HfO2 coating thicknesses, indicating that the LIC growth might be connected to thermal effects caused by absorption in the coatings.
Keywords : Laser-induced damage threshold, Laser-induced contamination, Oxide coatings, Sub-ps pulses
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