Book Description
A set-up for automated measurement of damage thresholds on UV optical components is presented, being part of the EUREKA program "High Power Excimer Lasers". It includes on-line monitoring of probe beam parameters as well as sample condition, using digital image processing techniques for both laser beam profiling and high sensitivity damage detection. The latter is performed with a video microscopy system by pixel-to-pixel comparison of the video frames taken before and after the test laser pulse.
