Title | Multiple spot mirrors as total reflectors inside stable XeCl laser cavities |
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Publication Type | Presentazione a Congresso |
Year of Publication | 2003 |
Authors | Rizzo, Antonella, Aghamkar P., de Tomasi F., Perrone M.R., Protopapa Maria Lucia, and Scaglione S. |
Conference Name | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
Conference Location | Firenze |
Keywords | Antireflection coatings, chlorine, Cryopump, Kaufman ion guns, Laser beams, Laser resonators, Mirrors, Optical characterization, Optical coatings, Optical devices, Optical fiber fabrication, Sputtering, Xenon |
Abstract | Multiple spot mirrors are non-conventional optical components which present a number of equally spaced circular spots with a high reflectance that decreases to zero outside the spots. It is believed that the use of multiple spot mirrors as full reflectors in plane-parallel laser cavities should allow to improve the laser beam optical quality and get a good filling of the active medium. A double-spot mirror and a four-spot mirror for a XeCl laser cavity (λ=308 nm) have been fabricated by depositing HfO2 and SiO2 thin films by reactive ion beam sputtering. The design employed allows to obtain a maximum reflectance (79%) on the spot area and a reflectance lower than 0.5% outside the spots by shaping the thickness of one of the inner layer. To this aim, a properly shaped mask was put inside the vacuum chamber during the deposition of the graded layer. The realization and the optical characterization of these devices are presented in this paper. |
URL | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-2342459728&doi=10.1117%2f12.527568&partnerID=40&md5=61c5c070cbd780dcb004a962a56e4d89 |
DOI | 10.1117/12.527568 |
Citation Key | Rizzo2003678 |