RT Journal Article T1 Femtosecond laser induced damage characterization of transmission volume phase gratings A1 Martínez Matos, Óscar A1 Hernández Garay, María de la Paz A1 Izquierdo, J. G. A1 Vaveliuk, Pablo A1 Bañares Morcillo, Luis A1 Calvo Padilla, María Luisa AB A procedure to characterize the induced damage and the incubation effects in volume transmission gratings under femtosecond laser pulse train illumination is presented. It was also developed a formalism that explains the damage processes. Our proposal was employed on glass gratings to show the effectiveness of the method and its potential to design transmission gratings with enhanced laser induced damage threshold. This procedure is able to be extended to any transmission grating composed by chemically non-uniform material, opening up new perspectives to femtosecond laser pulse shaping. PB American Institute of Physics SN 0003-6951 YR 2014 FD 2014-07-28 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33755 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33755 LA eng NO © 2014 AIP Publishing LLC. We thank J. A. Rodrigo and T. Alieva for valuable discussions and advice. We thank the financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competividad under Projects TEC 2011-23629, CTQ2008-02578/BQU, and CTQ2012-37404-C02-01 and Consolider program SAUUL CSD2007-00013 and from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento. The facilities provided by the Center of Ultrashort Lasers at Madrid Complutense University are gratefully acknowledged. NO Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competividad NO Consolider program SAUUL NO Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento DS Docta Complutense RD 12 may 2025