Industrial Applications / Advanced Lasers and Optical Technologies

[SLPC7-04] Free of thermal focus shift optics made of crystal quartz

*Alexander Laskin¹, Joerg Volpp², Takuji Nara³ (1. AdlOptica Optical Systems GmbH, 2. Lulea University of Technology, 3. Profitet)

Unique combination of physical properties of crystal quartz provides self-compensation of unwished thermo-optical effects such as focus shift and aberrations, and makes it an athermal optical material for multi-kW optics.