Since the very beginning of laser technology, Laser Induced Damage Thresholds (LIDT) of
optical components were always an obstacle for the application of laser systems operating …

As a hard and brittle material, KDP crystal is easily damaged by the irradiation of laser in a
laser-driven inertial confinement fusion device due to various factors, which will also affect …

An experimental and numerical study of the laser-induced damage of the surface of optical
material in the femtosecond regime is presented. The objective of this work is to investigate …

The wavelength dependence of the threshold for femtosecond optical breakdown in water
provides information on the interplay of multiphoton, tunneling, and avalanche ionization …

Laser damage phenomena are governed by a number of different effects for the respective
operation modes and pulse durations. In the ultra short pulse regime the electronic structure …

Ultrafast Optical Modulation by Virtual Interband Transitions Page 1 Ultrafast Optical
Modulation by Virtual Interband Transitions. Evgenii E. Narimanov School of Electrical and …

The filamentation of focused 300 fs laser pulses with variable polarization azimuth in bulk of
synthetic HPHT diamond demonstrates the possibility of polarization-dependent bandgap …

Although ultrafast laser materials processing has advanced at a breakneck pace over the
last two decades, most applications have been developed with laser pulses at near-IR or …

In order to more exactly predict femtosecond pulse laser induced damage threshold, an
accurate theoretical model taking into account photoionization, avalanche ionization and …

In order to accurately calculate the femtosecond laser breakdown threshold of wide band-
gap dielectrics using the photoionization and avalanche ionization theories, the applied …