UV antireflection coatings are a challenging coating for high power laser applications as exemplified by the use of uncoated Brewster's windows in laser cavities. In order to understand the current laser resistance of UV AR coatings in the industrial and university sectors, a double blind laser damage competition was performed. The coatings have a maximum reflectance of 0.5% at 355 nm at normal incidence. Damage testing will be performed using the raster scan method with a 7.5 ns pulse length on a single testing facility to facilitate direct comparisons. In addition to the laser resistance results, details of deposition processes and coating materials will also be shared.

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Narrow-bandwidth Fabry-Perot transmission filters are used in telecommunications, fiber lasers 1 , and for diode pumped alkali lasers (DPAL) 2 . Because of their interference properties, extremely high standing-wave electric fields occur at peak transmission. For this study, the filters met a minimum transmission of 90% and were spectrally centered within an angle tuning range of 10-30 degrees. A blind laser damage test assured sample and submitter anonymity. The participants selected the coating materials, design, spectral bandwidth, cleaning method, and deposition method. Laser damage testing was performed at a wavelength of 1064 nm using a raster scan method on a single testing facility to enable a direct comparison among the participants. Pulse length scaling relationships were explored by laser damage testing at a 3.5-ns and 18-ns pulse length. The results show that the spectral bandwidth had the strongest relationship to the laser damage threshold. Other parameters such as deposition processes, cleaning method, coating materials, and layer count were also explored.