Wavefront distortion of the reflected and diffracted beams produced by the thermoelastic deformation of a diffraction grating heated by a Gaussian laser beam

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 659-668

  Lu, Patrick P ^a   Bullington, Amber L ^a   Beyersdorf, Peter ^a,c   Traeger, Stefan ^a,d   Mansell, Justin ^a,e   Beausoleil, Ray ^b   Gustafson, Eric K ^a,f   Byer, Robert L ^a   Fejer, Martin M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

^e MZA Associates Corporation   (United States)

^f Lightconnect Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; DISTORTION (WAVES); FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; THERMOELASTICITY; WAVEFRONTS;

GAUSSIAN LASER BEAM; GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTORS; LASER PROBE BEAM;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 34047159985     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.000659     Document Type: Article

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