Delivery of 10-MW Nd:YAG laser pulses by large-core optical fibers: Dependence of the laser-intensity profile on beam propagation

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1610-1614

  Richou, B ^a   Schertz, I ^b   Gobin, I ^b   Richou, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULON   (France)

^b Commissariat àl’Energie Atomique/Vaujours ^*  (France)

Author keywords

15 ns pulses; Laser beam profile; Laserinduced damage threshold; Multimode fiber optics; Nd:YAG beam delivery

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); FIBER OPTICS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; SURFACES; VACUUM TECHNOLOGY;

FLAT HAT DISTRIBUTION; LASER BEAM DELIVERY SYSTEM; LASER INDUCED DAMAGE THRESHOLD; LASER TO FIBER VACUUM COUPLER; RAY TRACING;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0031094570     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001610     Document Type: Article

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