Design and fabrication of Fourier plane diffractive optical elements for high-power fibre-coupling applications

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 671-681

  Thomson, M J ^a   Taghizadeh, M R ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffractive optics; Fibre beam delivery

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; THROUGHPUT;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS (DOE); FIBER BEAM DELIVERY; PHASE LEVELS; PIXELS;

FOURIER OPTICS;

EID: 13844280402     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2004.09.016     Document Type: Article

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