Relaxation of Thermal Residual Stress in Laser Irradiated Fused Silica by Annealing Process

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To relax the surface residual stress of fused silica lens or windows irradiated by CO2 laser, it was proposed to treat it at high temperature above glass strain temperature in the traditional annealing process. However it is a time and energy consuming process, and a distortion will be introduced during the heat treatment. To deal with these problems, annealing temperatures lower than glass strain temperature were applied to the annealing process and a new scheme was designed in this paper. An numerical model was built to simulate the laser induced residual stress and optimize the stress variation in the annealing process. The surface stress of fused silica can be relaxed and deformation induced by heat treating can be ignored.

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