Diffractive optical elements for high gain lasers with arbitrary output beam profiles

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 10699-10704

  Caley, Adam J ^a   Thomson, Martin J ^b   Liu, Jinsong ^a   Waddie, Andrew J ^a   Taghizadeh, Mohammad R ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPTOS PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; LASERS; MIRRORS; REFLECTION;

BEAM SHAPER; ENERGY EXTRACTION; PHASE DELAYS; QUANTIZATION LEVELS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS;

EID: 34548082885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010699     Document Type: Article

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