Uniform intensity of laser radiation is very important in holographic and interferometry technologies, therefore
transformation of typical Gaussian distribution of a TEM00 laser to flat-top (top hat) is an actual technical task, it is
solved by applying beam shaping optics. Holography and interferometry have specific requirements to a uniform laser
beam, most important of them are flatness of phase front and extended depth of field. There are different refractive and
diffractive beam shaping approaches used in laser industrial and scientific applications, but only few of them are capable
to fulfil the optimum conditions for beam quality demanding holography and interferometry. We suggest applying
refractive field mapping beam shapers piShaper, which operational principle presumes almost lossless transformation of
Gaussian to flat-top beam with flatness of output wavefront, conserving of beam consistency, providing collimated low
divergent output beam, high transmittance, extended depth of field, negligible wave aberration, and achromatic design
provides capability to work with several lasers with different wavelengths simultaneously. This approach is used in
SLM-based technologies of Computer Generated Holography, Dot-Matrix mastering of security holograms, holographic
data storage, holographic projection, lithography, interferometric recording of Volume Bragg Gratings. High optical
quality of resulting flat-top beam allows applying additional optical components to vary beam size and shape, thus
adapting an optical system to requirements of a particular application. This paper will describe design basics of refractive
beam shapers and optical layouts of their applying in holographic systems. Examples of real implementations and
experimental results will be presented as well.
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