Recent studies suggest that fatigue effect in dielectric optical coatings is possibly associated with the presence of strong nonlinear absorption, however, up to now there was only indirect evidence for such hypothesis. One of the reasons for that was a technical rigor to characterize nonlinear absorption losses in optical coatings and a lack of pertinent experimental data. Recent advancement of common-path interferometry and LIDT testing allows us to overcome such limitations. In this study we examine nonlinear response and fatigue effect in single- and multilayer dielectric coatings below single shot damage threshold. Although there is no quantitative model that could predict fatigue from absorptance, we found an interesting correlation between nonlinear absorption and fatigue effect under comparable experimental conditions. These results help us to understand the mechanism of fatigue in optical coatings and possibly make more durable femtosecond optics.
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