PNNL

Abstract

The Boulder Damage Symposium is the leading forum for the exchange of information on the physics/technology of materials for high power/high energy lasers. The series of conference proceedings has grown to be a comprehensive source of information on optics for lasers and includes topics on materials and thin film preparation, durability, properties modeling, testing, and component fabrication. Four subject areas comprise core topics within the Symposium. These include: Thin Films; Materials and Measurements; Fundamental Mechanisms; and, Surfaces and Mirrors. To insure that the meeting is indeed dynamic, a Mini-Symposium is offered each year in a subject area of current interest to the laser-damage community. This year the focus is on damage issues in fiber laser systems. Key issues in this current technical program that are distributed among the respective topical areas, tend to emphasize shorter wavelength irradiation and ultrashort pulsewidths.