Determination of the mid-IR femtosecond surface-damage threshold of germanium
Determination of the mid-IR femtosecond surface-damage threshold of germanium
To assess the potential uses of germanium as a nonlinear material in the mid IR we have measured the surface-damage threshold of germanium optical windows using femtosecond pulses at a wavelength of 3.9 µm. By working with a wavelength corresponding to a photon energy of less than half the band-gap energy, free-carrier generation due to one- and two-photon absorption was eliminated. The laser pulses had an energy of 5.5 µJ, a duration of 255 fs, and were focused to a waist size of approximately 100 µm. The multi-shot damage threshold of the germanium windows was estimated to be approximately 94 GW/cm2. The data should be of immediate benefit to industrial laser researchers and applications engineers working in the mid-IR region.
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Malik, Rohit
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October 2013
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Moktadir, Zakaria
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Li, Zhihong
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Malik, Rohit, Mills, Ben, Price, Jonathan H.V., Petrovich, Marco, Moktadir, Zakaria, Li, Zhihong and Rutt, Harvey N.
(2013)
Determination of the mid-IR femtosecond surface-damage threshold of germanium.
Applied Physics A, 113 (1), .
(doi:10.1007/s00339-012-7499-9).
Abstract
To assess the potential uses of germanium as a nonlinear material in the mid IR we have measured the surface-damage threshold of germanium optical windows using femtosecond pulses at a wavelength of 3.9 µm. By working with a wavelength corresponding to a photon energy of less than half the band-gap energy, free-carrier generation due to one- and two-photon absorption was eliminated. The laser pulses had an energy of 5.5 µJ, a duration of 255 fs, and were focused to a waist size of approximately 100 µm. The multi-shot damage threshold of the germanium windows was estimated to be approximately 94 GW/cm2. The data should be of immediate benefit to industrial laser researchers and applications engineers working in the mid-IR region.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 22 December 2012
Published date: October 2013
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