Laser beam intensity profile transformation with a fabricated mirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 551-557

  Nemoto, Koshichi ^a   Fujii, Takashi ^a   Goto, Naohiko ^a   Takino, Hideo ^b   Kobayashi, Teruki ^b   Shibata, Norio ^b   Yamamura, Kazuya ^c   Mori, Yuzo ^c  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b NIKON CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beam forming; Coordinate transformation; Graded phase mirror; Hologram; Intensity transformation; Laser; Plasma chemical vaporization machining; Wave front correction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013235876     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000551     Document Type: Article

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