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Statistics of Laser Damage Threshold Measurements
Chapter 7
7. Statistics of Laser Damage
Threshold Measurements
Jonathan W. Arenberg
Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials. Edited by Detlev Ristau © 2015 CRC Press/Taylor & Francis
Group, LLC. ISBN: 978-1-4398-7216-1.
7.1 Introduction ........................................................184
7.2 Selected History of Laser Damage Threshold Measurements .............186
7.3 Analytic Framework ................................................188
7.3.1 Poisson Statistics .............................................188
7.3.2 Irradiation Distributions ........................................ ...