Evaluation of a round-robin test on optical absorption at 10.6 μm

authored by: Detlev Ristau, Uwe Willamowski, Herbert Welling, Wilfried Plass, Adolf Giesen
Abstract: High quality optical components are of major importance for the development of new concepts and applications of CO₂ - lasers. Especially, as a consequence of the ever increasing output power of new laser systems, optical absorption has become a crucial topic for the production and commercialization of laser components. Therefore, activities for the standardization of optical absorption measurements were initiated in ISO/TC 172/SC 9/WG 6, which is dedicated to optics and optical instruments in lasers and laser related equipment. Recently, the corresponding standard document ISO/DIS 11551 on test methods for absorptance of optical laser components has passed the international voting procedure. For an evaluation of this standard practise, which is based on laser calorimetry, a round-robin test on optical absorption at 10.6 μm was started. In order to cover a broad range of CO₂ laser optical components, different types of metal mirrors and transmissive ZnSe-optics were selected for the sample set, which was circulated between manufacturers and optical laboratories in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. This paper reports on the results of this experiment in respect to the new standard procedure described in ISO/DIS 11551. The contributions of the laboratories, which are based on a variety of different calorimetric measurement facilities, are compared and evaluated.
External Organisation(s): Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH)
University of Stuttgart
Type: Conference contribution
Pages: 502-514
No. of pages: 13
Publication date: 20.11.1996
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Computer Science Applications, Applied Mathematics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1117/12.259936 (Access: Closed)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{03838cb317ac479591d433355951144f,
title = "Evaluation of a round-robin test on optical absorption at 10.6 μm",
abstract = "High quality optical components are of major importance for the development of new concepts and applications of CO2 - lasers. Especially, as a consequence of the ever increasing output power of new laser systems, optical absorption has become a crucial topic for the production and commercialization of laser components. Therefore, activities for the standardization of optical absorption measurements were initiated in ISO/TC 172/SC 9/WG 6, which is dedicated to optics and optical instruments in lasers and laser related equipment. Recently, the corresponding standard document ISO/DIS 11551 on test methods for absorptance of optical laser components has passed the international voting procedure. For an evaluation of this standard practise, which is based on laser calorimetry, a round-robin test on optical absorption at 10.6 μm was started. In order to cover a broad range of CO2 laser optical components, different types of metal mirrors and transmissive ZnSe-optics were selected for the sample set, which was circulated between manufacturers and optical laboratories in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. This paper reports on the results of this experiment in respect to the new standard procedure described in ISO/DIS 11551. The contributions of the laboratories, which are based on a variety of different calorimetric measurement facilities, are compared and evaluated.",
author = "Detlev Ristau and Uwe Willamowski and Herbert Welling and Wilfried Plass and Adolf Giesen",
note = "Funding information: We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Bundesministerium fur Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (contract 13EU0140/1, EUREKA-Project: CHOCLAB). We also gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the participating laboratories and their co-workers: H. Niederwald and D. Erdelyi of Carl Zeiss; P. Meja of the Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft; R. Krupka of the Institut f{\"u}r Strahlwerkzeuge; M. Kennedy, S. Guenster, and E. Oertel of the Laser Zentrum Hannover; Z. Lu, T.V. Le and K.M. Lee of the Rocky Mountain Instruments Company; H.E. Reedy and D. Scatena of the II/VI Incorporation as well as N. Ellis and D. Greening of V&S Scientific. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Bundesministerium f{\"u}r Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (contract 13EU0140/1, EUREKA-Project: CHOCLAB). We also gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the participating laboratories and their co-workers: H. Niederwald and D. Brdelyi of Carl Zeiss; P. Meja of the Hochschule f{\"u}r Technik und Wirtschaft; R. Krupka of the Institut fUr Strahlwerkzeuge; M. Kennedy, S. Guenster, and E. Oertel of the Laser Zentrum Hannover; Z. Lu, T.V. Le and K.M. Lee of the Rocky Mountain Instruments Company; HE. Reedy and D.; 3rd International Workshop on Laser Beam and Optics Characterization 1996 ; Conference date: 08-07-1996 Through 10-07-1996",
year = "1996",
month = nov,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1117/12.259936",
language = "English",
isbn = "0-8194-2267-3",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
pages = "502--514",
booktitle = "Third International Workshop on Laser Beam and Optics Characterization",
address = "United States",
}