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How small stresses affect 351-nm damage onset in fused silica

This paper presents an innovative technique for designing high-strength optical glasses in which slow crack growth is arrested and the laser-induced damage threshold is significantly higher. The technique consists simply of applying compressive stresses in the surfaces of a glass. An increase of up to 70 percent in fused-silica exit-surface as well as front-surface threshold has been obtained.

John C. Lambropoulos | Semyon Papernov | Ansgar W. Schmid | Stephen J. Burns | Faiz Dahmani

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