Femtosecond laser-induced pre-damage dynamics in Al2O3/SiO2 mirror

Juan Du; Zehan Li; Bing Xue; Takayoshi Kobayashi; Dongjia Han; Yuanan Zhao; Yuxin Leng

doi:10.1117/12.2186934

14 July 2015 Femtosecond laser-induced pre-damage dynamics in Al₂O₃/SiO₂ mirror

Juan Du, Zehan Li, Bing Xue, Takayoshi Kobayashi, Dongjia Han, Yuanan Zhao, Yuxin Leng

Proceedings Volume 9532, Pacific Rim Laser Damage 2015: Optical Materials for High-Power Lasers; 953209 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2186934
Event: Pacific Rim Laser Damage, 2015, Jiading, Shanghai, China

Abstract

UV femtosecond laser pulse was used to excite the ultrafast carrier dynamics inside the Al₂O₃/SiO₂ high reflective mirror. Spectral shift between two different laser induced free electron absorption bands was observed. The former one centered at 406 nm undergo a fast decay of ~2.6 ps and a longer one of ~15 ps. Accompanied by the fast decay of the first absorption band, a new absorption band centered at 396 nm grew around ~2.8 ps after the laser excitation. The probable explanation the observed spectral shift of the free electron absorption band is that, the free carrier in the Al₃O₂ conductive band was trapped into some kind of defect state, which has an absorption peak at 396 nm, at a time scale of ~2.8 ps. Since the defect state has much longer lifetime than the initial generated free carriers in thee conductive band, probably under the condition of ultrafast high-frequency pulsed UV laser exposure, the incubation effect will decrease the laser damage threshold of the subsequent laser pulses.

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Juan Du, Zehan Li, Bing Xue, Takayoshi Kobayashi, Dongjia Han, Yuanan Zhao, and Yuxin Leng "Femtosecond laser-induced pre-damage dynamics in Al₂O₃/SiO₂ mirror", Proc. SPIE 9532, Pacific Rim Laser Damage 2015: Optical Materials for High-Power Lasers, 953209 (14 July 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2186934

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