A new insight into defect-induced laser damage in UV multilayer coatings
Conference
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OSTI ID:552208
- Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany)
- Fraunhofer-Einrightung fuer Angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik Jena (Germany)
High performance Al{sub 2}O{sub 3}SiO{sub 2} mirror coatings for 248 nm have been investigated with respect to their excimer laser damage resistivity. Global damage thresholds (in the range of 10-20 J/cm{sup 2}) averaged over large areas were determined with the pulsed photoacoustic mirage detection method. With a raster scanning technique utilizing the same detection scheme, the local damage behaviour was studied with 100 {mu}m spatial resolution. It was found that the local damage threshold at specific sites was lower than the global damage threshold and it was assumed that this phenomenon was associated with micrometer-scale defects in the multilayer coating. To test this hypothesis photothermal displacement microscopy with {mu}m lateral resolution was performed on the investigated regions prior to excimer laser light irradiation. Photothermal images revealed an extremely small background absorption and a small number of absorbing defect sites. For a number of such sites a clear correlation between the local absorption and the onset of laser damage at that specific location was found. We conclude that the crucial factor determining the damage resistivity of the high quality coating systems are defects and contaminants and that it will be possible to predict their damage thresholds by a complete microscopic photothermal inspection.
- Research Organization:
- International Society for Optical Engineering, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 552208
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9410155--Vol.2428; CNN: Project 13EU 0131
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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