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Progressive damage of aluminium mirrors subjected to microsecond pulsed TEA-CO2 laser irradiation in air, at incident intensity levels lower than the thresholds for melting induction and air breakdown ignition, was evidenced by electron microscopy investigations. A simple model was developed accounting for the results of our experimental studies.
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Ursu, I., Apostol, I., Dinescu, M. et al. Electron-microscopy investigations of the damage of aluminium mirrors as a result of repeated powerful microsecond pulsed TEA-CO2 laser irradiation in air. Appl. Phys. A 34, 133–138 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00614765
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