Time scales of radiation damage decay in four optical materials

Frank Grupp; Norbert Geis; Reinhard Katterloher; Ralf Bender

doi:10.1117/12.2273662

5 September 2017 Time scales of radiation damage decay in four optical materials

Frank Grupp, Norbert Geis, Reinhard Katterloher, Ralf Bender

Proceedings Volume 10372, Material Technologies and Applications to Optics, Structures, Components, and Sub-Systems III; 103720D (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273662
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In the framework of the qualification campaigns for the near infrared spectrometer and photometer instrument (NISP) on board the ESA/EUCLID satellite six optical materials where characterized with respect to their transmission losses after a radiation dose representing the mission exposure to high energy particles in the outer Lagrange point L2. Data was taken between 500 and 2000nm on six 25mm thick coated probes. Thickness and coating being representative for the NISP flight configuration. With this paper we present results owing up the radiation damage shown in [1]. We where able to follow up the decay of the radiation damage over almost one year under ambient conditions. This allows us to distinguish between curing effects that happen on different time-scales. As for some of the materials no radiation damage and thus no curing was detected, all materials that showed significant radiation damage in the measured passband showed two clearly distinguished time scales of curing. Up to 70% of the transmission losses cured on half decay time scales of several tens of days, while the rest of the damage cures on time scales of years.

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Frank Grupp, Norbert Geis, Reinhard Katterloher, and Ralf Bender "Time scales of radiation damage decay in four optical materials", Proc. SPIE 10372, Material Technologies and Applications to Optics, Structures, Components, and Sub-Systems III, 103720D (5 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273662

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