Yuta Kitamura1, Noriyuki Miyazaki1, Takahito Kumazaki2, Naoto Nagakura3, Yasuhiro Hashimoto3, Isao Masada3
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 151-166, 2010, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2010.068.151
Abstract CaF2 single crystal is used as high performance optical elements. We developed an analysis system for simulating birefringence of CaF2 single crystal used as a chamber window of a gas laser light source. The analysis system consists of a stress analysis and a birefringence analysis. In the stress analysis, the finite element method was applied to obtain the mechanical stress caused by a window holder and gas pressure. In the birefringence analysis, the photo-elastic effect gives the change of refractive indices, from which the optical path difference and the fast axis are calculated by using the More >