Requirements for the detection of damage events and measurement of laser fluence for high-quality damage threshold measurements

Jonathan W. Arenberg

doi:10.1117/12.180938

28 July 1994 Requirements for the detection of damage events and measurement of laser fluence for high-quality damage threshold measurements

Jonathan W. Arenberg

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Proceedings Volume 2114, Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials: 1993; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.180938
Event: Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials: 1993, 1993, Boulder, CO, United States

Abstract

The accuracy and precision of a laser damage threshold determination is affected by the uncertainty in the data used. The uncertainty in the data comes from two sources. The first source is imprecise knowledge of the independent variable, the laser fluence. The other source is the uncertainty in the measured damage frequency. The two uncertainties are added in quadrature to yield the final data point uncertainty. Since the uncertainties add in quadrature, it is not advantageous to make one source very small without an effort to lower both. It is shown that the dominant source of uncertainty is in the measurement of the damage frequency.

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Jonathan W. Arenberg "Requirements for the detection of damage events and measurement of laser fluence for high-quality damage threshold measurements", Proc. SPIE 2114, Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials: 1993, (28 July 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.180938

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