Kyle Firestone

Technical Marketing Engineer, Edmund Optics

Kyle Firestone is technical marketing engineer at Edmund Optics (Barrington, NJ).

FIGURE 1. Shown is the temporal dependence of various laser-induced damage mechanisms for pulsed lasers.
Lasers & Sources

Resolving damage ambiguity and laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) complications

June 1, 2019
The ISO 21254 LIDT specification itself is a broad guideline; further refinement helps to best correlate LIDT specifications to real performance.