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Improvement and formation of UV-induced damage on LBO crystal surface during long-term high-power third-harmonic
Hailong Hong1, Qiang Liu, Lei Huang
1State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Center for Photonics and Electronics, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Abstract:
We demonstrate the improvement and formation of UV-induced damage on LBO crystal output surface during long-term (130 h) high-power (20 W) high-repetition-rate (80 kHz) third-harmonic generation. The output surface was super-polished (RMS surface roughness <0.6 nm) to sub-nanometer scale super smooth roughness. The surface lifetime has been improved more than 20-fold compared with the as-polished ones (RMS surface roughness 4.0~8.0 nm). The damage could be attributed to the consequence of thermal effects resulted from impurity absorptions. Simultaneously, it was verified that the impurities originated in part from the UV-induced deposition.
