TY  - CHAP
ID  - publicatio34065
AV  - public
A1  -  Somosk?i Tamás
A1  -  Vass Csaba
A1  -  Mero M
A1  -  Mingesz Róbert Zoltán
A1  -  Bozóki Zoltán
A1  -  Osvay Károly
Y1  - 2013///
EP  - 7
SN  - 9780819497536
N1  - A4 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Spica Technologies, 
Inc.
T2  - 45th Annual Laser Damage Symposium Proceedings - Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials: 2013
T3  - Proceedings of SPIE
PB  - International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)
TI  - A unified optical damage criterion based on the probability density distribution of detector signals
N2  - Various methods and procedures have been developed so far to test laser induced optical damage. The question naturally arises, that what are the respective sensitivities of these diverse methods. To make a suitable comparison, both the processing of the measured primary signal has to be at least similar to the various methods, and one needs to establish a proper damage criterion, which has to be universally applicable for every method. We defined damage criteria based on the probability density distribution of the obtained detector signals. This was determined by the kernel density estimation procedure. We have tested the entire evaluation procedure in four well-known detection techniques: direct observation of the sample by optical microscopy; monitoring of the change in the light scattering power of the target surface and the detection of the generated photoacoustic waves both in the bulk of the sample and in the surrounding air.
CY  - Boulder (CO)
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2030341
ER  -