On-line characterization of Nd:YAG laser beams by means of modal decomposition using diffractive optical correlation filters

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5962, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Duparre M ^a   Ludge B ^a   Schroter S ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Institut f Physikalische Hochtechnologie Jena   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam propagation invariants; Correlation filter; Gauss Hermite modes; Laser beam characterization; Method of second order moments; Modal decomposition; Modal superposition; Nd:YAG laser

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; LITHOGRAPHY; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OPTICAL CORRELATION;

BEAM PROPAGATION INVARIANTS; CORRELATION FILTER; GAUSS-HERMITE MODES; LASER BEAM CHARACTERIZATION; METHOD OF SECOND ORDER MOMENTS; MODAL DECOMPOSITION; MODAL SUPERPOSITION; ND:YAG LASER;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 33144477942     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.625222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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