Re: cleaning laser brewster windows

Matthias Haury (mhaury@pasteur.fr)
Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:52:31 +0200

Hello Karen,

maybe you want to have a look at Coherents WWW site:

http://www.cohr.com/clg/clg_ts/clg_ts_cleaning/brewster.html

They show exactly how you should do it. I think at least that this should
be universal for all the brewsters, but correct me if I'm wrong.

Matthias

______________________________________________________________
Matthias Haury _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/
Flowcytometry - Immunology _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
Institut Pasteur Paris _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/
Email: mhaury@pasteur.fr _/ _/ _/
Tel: 33 (1) 40 61 31 29 _/_/_/ _/ _/
Fax: 33 (1) 45 68 86 39 INSTITUT PASTEUR PARIS
______________________________________________________________

At 12:14 12/09/96, Karen Helm wrote:
>What are the recommended procedures for cleaning Brewster windows?
>An associate here at the University of Colorado tells me that he has
>cleaned laser Brewster windows using a paste of calcium carbonate. He
>swears that this was actually recommended as part of a cleaning kit
>for Spectra Physics lasers and that it usually brought the laser back
>to or greater than the original output specs. Has anyone else ever
>tried this?
>Karen Helm, University of Colorado