Laser beam shaping via conventional design software

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4443, Issue , 2001, Pages 36-46

  Holswade, Scott C ^a   Dickey, Fred M ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam shaping; Genetic algorithms; Merit function; Optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL RECORDING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

LASER BEAM SHAPING SYSTEMS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0035759399     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.446752     Document Type: Conference Paper

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