Fig. 1. Thermal aberrations of Si reflector of different absorptivity
Fig. 2. Thermal aberrations of reflection and transmission for SiO2 and Al2O3
Fig. 3. Thermal diffusion of different materials vs time
Fig. 4. Distribution of thermal aberration of SiO2 under uniform and non-uniform laser irradiation
Fig. 5. RMS of thermal aberration under uniform and non-uniform laser spot irradiation as a function of time
Fig. 6. Sketch of a horizontal closed tube
Fig. 7. Thermal aberrations in a closed horizontal tube
Fig. 8. Temperature distribution of media gas at different time
Fig. 9. Thermal aberrations of media gas under different pressure
Fig. 10. Thermal aberrations of gas of different ε
Fig. 11. Component interface of laser source
Fig. 12. Component interface of reflector
Fig. 13. Component interface of media gas
Fig. 14. Component of analysis for wavefront and laser in far-field
Fig. 15. Sketch of inner thermal effect simulation in Easylaser
Fig. 16. Complementary effect of thermal aberration between optical components and media gas
Fig. 17. Laser distribution in far-field
Fig. 18. Characters of laser propagation in far-field
material | density/(kg·m−3) | heat capacity/(J·K−1·kg−1) | thermal conductivity/(W·m−1·K−1) | Young’s modulus/GPa | Poisson ratio | thermal expansion/K−1 | thermal optic coefficient/K−1 | Si | 2329 | 695 | 153 | 190 | 0.26 | 4.68×10−6 | − | Al2O3 | 3980 | 761.5 | 24 | 379 | 0.27 | 7.8×10−6 | 1.15×10−5 | SiO2 | 2200 | 753 | 1.4 | 73 | 0.17 | 0.42×10−6 | 1.10×10−5 |
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Table 1. Physical values of the glasses
density/(kg·m−3) | specific heat capacity/ (J·K−1·kg−1) | thermal conductivity/(W·m−1·K−1) | dynamic viscosity/(μPa·s) | refractive index | 1.2506 | 1043 | 0.026 | 17.9 | 1.0002793 |
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Table 2. Physical values of the N2