1.5% root-mean-square flat-intensity laser beam formed using a binary-amplitude spatial light modulator

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1955-1962

  Jinyang, Liang ^a   Kohn, Rudolph N ^b   Becker, Michael F ^a   Heinzen, Daniel J ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; BINS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATORS; LOW PASS FILTERS; OPTICAL LATTICES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMAL NOISE;

ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUE; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; DIGITAL MICRO-MIRROR DEVICE; ERROR DIFFUSION ALGORITHM; INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; TEXAS INSTRUMENTS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 65249168148     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001955     Document Type: Article

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