Design of GRIN laser beam shaping system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5525, Issue , 2004, Pages 138-147

  Shealy, David L ^a   Chao, Shao Hua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b National Hualien Teachers College   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Geometrical optics; GRIN; Irradiance mapping; Laser beam shaping; Optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

BEAM SHAPERS; GRADIENT-INDEX (GRIN); IRRADIANCE MAPPING; LASER BEAM SHAPING;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 13444251344     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.557436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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