BOULDER DAMAGE SYMPOSIUM 1978 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS DOE Welcome--Presentation of Awards to Drs. Guenther and Glass... C. M. Stickley Defense ARPA Welcome... H. V. Winsor Symposium Welcome.. A. J. Glass MEASUREMENT OF ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS Discussion of a Theory of Analysis of Rate Calorimetery which Includes Coating Absorption..... N. C. Fernelius and G. T. Johnston A Comparison of Bulk and Surface Absorptions in Nace and KC between 9.2 and 10.8 μm.... A 1.06 um Laser Absorption Calorimeter for Optical Coatings. T. H. Allen, J. H. Apfel, and C. K. Carniglia Measured Thin Film Absorption at the Air-film Interface, the Film Bulk, and the Film-substrate Interface..... P. A. Temple, D. L. Decker, T. M. Donovan, and J. W. Bethke Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Studies of Thin Film Coatings on Laser Windows.. BULK MATERIAL PROPERTIES Piezo-optical Coefficients of Some Neodymium Doped Laser Glasses Refractive Index of Strontium Fluoride...... The Development of Fluorides for High Power Laser Optics.... J. F. Ready, H. Vora, R. A. Skogman, K. M. Leung, and E. Bernal G. Bulk Optical Properties of Fine Grained Forged Calcium Fluoride... CW Laser Damage in AR Coated Alkaline Earth Flourides at 3.8 μm. Lattice Absorption, Phonon Assignments, and Image Spoiling Properties of CVD ZnS C. Klein, B. Di Benedetto, R. Donadio, T. Kohane, and J. Pappis Laser Induced Damage in Fluoride Glasses: A Status Report... Liquids for High Repetition Rate Glass Laser Systems J. M. Rinefierd, S. D. Jacobs, D. C. Brown, J. A. Abate, 0. Lewis, and H. Applebaum. Figure 9. Contents of 1978 Boulder Damage Symposium. MIRRORS AND SURFACES Physical and Optical Properties of Surfaces Generated by Diamond-Turning on an Advanced Machine D. L. Decker and D. J. Grandjean..... Optical and Metallurgical Characterization of Molybdenum Laser Mirrors S. M. Wong, G. Krauss, and J. M. Bennett...... 1064 nm Laser Damage Thresholds of Polished Glass Surfaces as a Function of Pulse Duration and Surface Roughness D. Milam..... Large Giant and Free-running Laser Pulse Energy and Power Densities through Optical Fibers THIN FILM DAMAGE Ultraviolet Damage Resistance of Laser Coatings B. E. Newnan and D. H. Gill...... Multithreshold Evaluation of 100-nsec Pulsed Laser Damage to Coating Materials at 2.7 and 3.8 m Wavelengths J. O. Porteus, T. M. Donovan, J. L. Jernigan, and W. N. Faith......... Multithreshold Damage Measurements on As2$3, As2Se3, and Naf at HF and DF Wavelengths TEM Investigation of Effects of a Barrier Layer on Damage to 1.064 um AR Coatings Optical Techniques for the Determination of Pulsed Laser Damage in Thin Films A Statistical Analysis of Absorptive Laser Damage in Dielectric Thin Films COATING MATERIALS AND DESIGN New Coating Materials for IR Laser Optical Components R. C. Pastor, J. A. Harrington, L. E. Gorre, and R. K. Chew... Improved PbF2 Coatings for the Infrared P. Baumeister, G. P. Arnold, and D. F. Edwards....... Graded Index Coatings of Cubic Thallium Iodide (Tl) and Lead Fluoride (PbF2) T. J. Moravec and R. A. Skogman........ Simple Expressions for Calculating the Effect of Volume or Interface Absorption in Thin Films on the Performance of High Reflectance or Antireflectance Multilayer Coatings H. E. Bennett and D. K. Burge........ Simplified Description of Dielectric Reflectors M. Sparks and M. Flannery........ Electric Fields near Coated Surfaces: Application to Damage Protection H. B. Rosenstock..... BREAKDOWN PHENOMENA Computer Simulation of Laser Damage Morphology in the Alkali Halides P. Kelly, D. Ritchie, P. Braunlich, and A. Schmid...... The Relative Role of the Impact and Multiphoton Ionization Mechanisms in Laser Induced Damage of Transparent Dielectrics B. G. Gorshkov, A. S. Epifanov, and A. A. Manenkov.... |