Design and comparison of laser windows for high-power lasers

Yanxiong Niu; Wenwen Liu; Haixia Liu; Caili Wang; Haisha Niu; Da Man

doi:10.1117/12.2065222

18 November 2014 Design and comparison of laser windows for high-power lasers

Yanxiong Niu, Wenwen Liu, Haixia Liu, Caili Wang, Haisha Niu, Da Man

Proceedings Volume 9266, High-Power Lasers and Applications VII; 92660B (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2065222
Event: SPIE/COS Photonics Asia, 2014, Beijing, China

Abstract

High-power laser systems are getting more and more widely used in industry and military affairs. It is necessary to develop a high-power laser system which can operate over long periods of time without appreciable degradation in performance. When a high-energy laser beam transmits through a laser window, it is possible that the permanent damage is caused to the window because of the energy absorption by window materials. So, when we design a high-power laser system, a suitable laser window material must be selected and the laser damage threshold of the window must be known. In this paper, a thermal analysis model of high-power laser window is established, and the relationship between the laser intensity and the thermal-stress field distribution is studied by deducing the formulas through utilizing the integral-transform method. The influence of window radius, thickness and laser intensity on the temperature and stress field distributions is analyzed. Then, the performance of K9 glass and the fused silica glass is compared, and the laser-induced damage mechanism is analyzed. Finally, the damage thresholds of laser windows are calculated. The results show that compared with K9 glass, the fused silica glass has a higher damage threshold due to its good thermodynamic properties. The presented theoretical analysis and simulation results are helpful for the design and selection of high-power laser windows.

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Yanxiong Niu, Wenwen Liu, Haixia Liu, Caili Wang, Haisha Niu, and Da Man "Design and comparison of laser windows for high-power lasers", Proc. SPIE 9266, High-Power Lasers and Applications VII, 92660B (18 November 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2065222

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