CO2 Laser Sidewall Polishing of Millimeter-scale Fused Silica Light Pipes

C. K. Madsen; Y. Dogan; J. Lin

doi:10.1364/ASSL.2020.JTu5A.22

Laser Congress 2020 (ASSL, LAC)
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2020),
paper JTu5A.22
•https://doi.org/10.1364/ASSL.2020.JTu5A.22

CO₂ Laser Sidewall Polishing of Millimeter-scale Fused Silica Light Pipes

C. K. Madsen, Y. Dogan, and J. Lin

Laser Applications Conference 2020

Washington, D.C. United States
13–16 October 2020
ISBN: 978-1-943580-84-2

From the session
Joint Poster Session I (JTu5A)

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Get PDF
Email
Share
Get Citation
Copy Citation Text
C. K. Madsen, Y. Dogan, and J. Lin, "CO2 Laser Sidewall Polishing of Millimeter-scale Fused Silica Light Pipes," in Laser Congress 2020 (ASSL, LAC), P. Schunemann, C. Saraceno, S. Mirov, S. Taccheo, J. Nilsson, A. Petersen, D. Mordaunt, and J. Trbola, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2020), paper JTu5A.22.

Export Citation
- BibTex
- Endnote (RIS)
- HTML
- Plain Text
Citation alert
Save article

Abstract

The sidewalls of fused silica light pipes with millimeter-scale cross-sections, having two rough surfaces from etching, were polished using a CO₂ laser. Surface profilometry and thermal management were used to achieve optical quality results.

PDF Article

More Like This

Laser polishing of fused silica

Annika Richmann, Edgar Willenborg, and Konrad Wissenbach
OTuC2 Optical Fabrication and Testing (OF&T) 2010

Empirical Model for Estimating Light Pipe Sidewall Scattering Loss

C.K. Madsen and C. Hu
JW6A.12 Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2020

Scale-Up Of LLNL Fused Silica Polishing Process

A. Tesar, B. Fuchs, E. Gowac, and S. Waite
WB10 Optical Fabrication and Testing (OF&T) 1992

Previous Article Next Article

Poster Presentation

Media 1: PDF (560 KB)