Enhancement of the beam quality of non-uniform output slab laser amplifier with a 39-actuator rectangular piezoelectric deformable mirror

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 7121-7130

  Yang, Ping ^a,b   Nine, Yu ^a,b,c   Lei, Xiang ^a,b   Xu, Bing ^a,b   Li, Xinyang ^a,b   Dong, Lizhi ^a,b   Yan, Hu ^a,b   Liu, Wenjing ^a,b   Jiang, Wenhan ^a,b   Liu, Lei ^d   Wang, Chao ^d   Liang, Xingbo ^d   Tang, Xiaojun ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Institute of North Optics and Electronic   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DEFORMATION; LASER PULSES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; WAVEFRONTS;

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; FAR-FIELD; NONUNIFORM; OUTPUT POWER; SLAB LASERS; STOCHASTIC PARALLEL GRADIENT DESCENT ALGORITHM; SYSTEM USE; WAVE FRONT SENSORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 77950273921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.007121     Document Type: Article

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