SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1985
STP28991S

Laser Damage in Porous-Silica Antireflection Films

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We used 355-nm, 0.6-ns pulses to measure laser-damage thresholds of porous-silica antireflection coatings deposited from a polymer solution onto fused silica substrates. For 118 coatings with optical thickness of 500–600 nm, the median threshold was less than 2 J/cm2, and thresholds were not systematically dependent on either the level of filtration of the coating solution or the procedure used to clean the substrates. For coatings 87–90 nm in optical thickness, thresholds were as large as 9 J/cm2, which is the threshold of the bare polished surfaces of the fused silica substrates. The data suggests that carbon residues from the coating solution are responsible for damage in the thicker coatings.

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Lowdermilk, WH
Wilder, JG
Brown, NJ
Gunderson, CA
Milam, D
Rainer, F
Staggs, MC
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Developed by Committee: E13
Pages: 372–377
DOI: 10.1520/STP28991S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-4956-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-0930-8