Additional content from Excelitas Technologies Corp
Additional content from Excelitas Technologies Corp
![Pco Image Edge Meets Panda[4]](https://img.laserfocusworld.com/files/base/ebm/lfw/image/2021/09/pco_image_edge_meets_panda_4_.613772ad12a18.png?auto=format,compress&fit=&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250 "Pco Image Edge Meets Panda[4]")
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![FIGURE 1. A schematic of optics exposed to low and high laser power [3], where refractive-index gradient and bulging are not present at low laser power (a); thermal focus shift and thermal induced spherical aberrations caused by the thermal induced refractive index gradient and lens deformation are induced at high power (b).](https://img.laserfocusworld.com/files/base/ebm/lfw/image/2020/03/2003LFWmil_z01.5e68eacdde568.png?auto=format,compress&fit=&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250 "FIGURE 1. A schematic of optics exposed to low and high laser power [3], where refractive-index gradient and bulging are not present at low laser power (a); thermal focus shift and thermal induced spherical aberrations caused by the thermal induced refractive index gradient and lens deformation are induced at high power (b).")
(Image courtesy of NASA/University of Arizona/CSA/York/MDA)
(All figures courtesy of the University of Kassel)
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Caltech/MIT/LIGO Laboratory
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