Laser induced damage in optical materials :

This book presents the papers given at a conference on the testing of laser materials. Topics considered at the conference included the optical and mechanical properties of glasses, laser damage in plastics, damage thresholds, optical surfaces, laser mirrors, the round-robin testing of low-scatter optics, light scattering characteristics of metal surfaces, microroughness and static density variations, bulk dielectric permittivity, laser wavelength, pulse duration, film thickness, RF-sputtered laser coatings, ion-beam sputtering, phase shift variations, antireflection films, nonlinear effects, and the refractivity of semiconductors.