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5 December 2014 Design and characterization of beam shapers for end-pumped lasers
Łukasz Gorajek, Sławomir Gogler, Mateusz Kaśków, Michał Piasecki, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Zbigniew Zawadzki, Jan K. Jabczyński
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Proceedings Volume 9441, 19th Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics; 94410C (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2079175
Event: XIX Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 2014, Jelenia Gora, Poland
Abstract
To homogenize inversion profiles and mitigate thermo-optic effects in high-power, end-pumped lasers the optimal spatial profile of pump beam should be close to ‘top-hat’ one, whereas typical pumping beams have Gaussian-like profiles. The aim of work was to examine feasibility of laser beam transformation with the use of a beam shaper consisted of a pair of aspheric refractive elements. Two beam shapers (with magnification m = 0.4, 0.8 respectively) for transformation of Gaussian profile to Super-Gaussian were designed and fabricated applying Magneto-Rheological Finishing technology. Both elements were experimentally verified for diffraction limited and partially coherent laser beams. The analytical model based on Fourier transform plane wave decomposition was applied for verification of experiments and to determine the performance of fabricated elements.
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Łukasz Gorajek, Sławomir Gogler, Mateusz Kaśków, Michał Piasecki, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Zbigniew Zawadzki, and Jan K. Jabczyński "Design and characterization of beam shapers for end-pumped lasers", Proc. SPIE 9441, 19th Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 94410C (5 December 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2079175
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KEYWORDS
Beam shaping

Aspheric lenses

Magnetorheological finishing

Polishing

Wavefronts

Diffraction

Chemical elements

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