Off-axis mirror based optical system design for circularization, collimation, and expansion of elliptical laser beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 5489-5499

  Serkan, Mert ^a   Kirkici, Hulya ^a   Cetinkaya, Hakan ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; MATLAB; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RADAR; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

COMPUTER PACKAGE PROGRAMS; MIRROR SYSTEMS; ZEMAX;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 35448948673     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.005489     Document Type: Article

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