Laser beam relaying with phase-conjugate diffractive optical elements

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 4749-4755

  Makki, Siamak ^a   Wang, Zhong ^a   Leger, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary optics; Diffractive optics; Flattop laser beam profile; Laser beam relay; Phase conjugation; Top hat laser beam profile

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER BEAMS; LASER MODES; LENSES; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

BINARY OPTICS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; FLATTOP LASER BEAM PROFILE; LASER BEAM RELAYING; PHASE CONJUGATION SYSTEM; RAYLEIGH-SOMMERFELD DIFFRACTION FORMULA; TOP HAT LASER BEAM PROFILE;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0031189187     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004749     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. D.M. Pepper, D. Fekete, and A. Yariv, “Observation of amplified phase-conjugate reflection and optical parametric oscillation by degenerate four-wave mixing in a transparent medium,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 33, 41-44 (1978).
2. J. R. Leger, D. Chen, and Z. Wang, “Diffractive optical element for mode shaping of a Nd:YAG laser,” Opt. Lett. 19, 108-110 (1994).