A high-resolution, adaptive beam-shaping system for high-power lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 9151-9163

  Bahk, Seung Whan ^a   Fess, Ed ^a   Kruschwitz, Brian E ^a   Zuegel, Jonathan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATORS; WAVEFRONTS;

BEAM-SHAPING; CLOSED-LOOP; DEGREE OF CONVERGENCE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-POWER; HIGH-PRECISION; LASER SYSTEMS; LIQUID CRYSTAL ON SILICON; PRACTICAL ISSUES; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; WAVE FRONT SHAPING;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 77952060931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009151     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. B. R. Brown, and A. W. Lohmann, "Complex spatial filtering with binary masks," Appl. Opt. 5(6), 967-969 (1966).
2. J. P. Kirk, and A. L. Jones, "Phase-only complex-valued spatial filter," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 61(8), 1023-1028 (1971).
3. D. C. Chu, and J. W. Goodman, "Spectrum shaping with parity sequences," Appl. Opt. 11(8), 1716-1724 (1972).
4. R. W. Cohn, and M. Liang, "Approximating fully complex spatial modulation with pseudorandom phase-only modulation," Appl. Opt. 33(20), 4406-4415 (1994).
5. C. Dorrer, and J. D. Zuegel, "Design and analysis of binary beam shapers using error diffusion," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24(6), 1268-1275 (2007).
6. C. Dorrer, "High-damage-threshold beam shaping using binary phase plates," Opt. Lett. 34(15), 2330-2332 (2009).
7. V. Bagnoud, and J. D. Zuegel, "Independent phase and amplitude control of a laser beam by use of a singlephase-only spatial light modulator," Opt. Lett. 29(3), 295-297 (2004).
8. S.-W. Bahk, J. D. Zuegel, J. R. Fienup, C. C. Widmayer, and J. Heebner, "Spot-shadowing optimization to mitigate damage growth in a high-energy-laser amplifier chain," Appl. Opt. 47(35), 6586-6593 (2008).
9. 2)," Appl. Phys. B 80(7), 823-832 (2005).
10. B. Wattellier, J. Fuchs, J. P. Zou, K. Abdeli, C. Haefner, and H. Pépin, "High-power short-pulse laser repetition rate improvement by adaptive wave front correction," Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75(12), 5186-5192 (2004).
11. J.-C. Chanteloup, H. Baldis, A. Migus, G. Mourou, B. Loiseaux, and J.-P. Huignard, "Nearly diffraction-limited laser focal spot obtained by use of an optically addressed light valve in an adaptive-optics loop," Opt. Lett. 23(6), 475-477 (1998).
12. S. Fourmaux, S. Payeur, A. Alexandrov, C. Serbanescu, F. Martin, T. Ozaki, A. Kudryashov, and J. C. Kieffer, "Laser beam wavefront correction for ultra high intensities with the 200 TW laser system at the advanced laser light source," Opt. Express 16(16), 11987-11994 (2008).
13. K. L. Baker, D. Homoelle, E. Utternback, E. A. Stappaerts, C. W. Siders, and C. P. J. Barty, "Interferometric adaptive optics testbed for laser pointing, wave-front control and phasing," Opt. Express 17(19), 16696-16709 (2009).
14. V. Bagnoud, M. J. Guardalben, J. Puth, J. D. Zuegel, T. Mooney, and P. Dumas, "High-energy, high-averagepower laser with Nd:YLF rods corrected by magnetorheological finishing," Appl. Opt. 44(2), 282-288 (2005).
15. R. K. Tyson, Principles of adaptive optics, 2nd ed. (Academic Press, Boston, 1998).
16. L. G. Roberts, "Picture coding using pseudo-random noise," IRE T Inform. Theor. 8, 145-154 (1962).
17. S.-W. Bahk, "Band-limited wavefront reconstruction with unity frequency response from Shack-Hartmann slopes measurements," Opt. Lett. 33(12), 1321-1323 (2008).
18. M. Servin, D. Malacara, and J. L. Marroquin, "Wave-front recovery from two orthogonal sheared interferograms," Appl. Opt. 35(22), 4343-4348 (1996).
19. J. H. Kelly, L. J. Waxer, V. Bagnoud, I. A. Begishev, J. Bromage, B. E. Kruschwitz, T. J. Kessler, S. J. Loucks, D. N. Maywar, R. L. McCrory, D. D. Meyerhofer, S. F. B. Morse, J. B. Oliver, A. L. Rigatti, A. W. Schmid, C. Stoeckl, S. Dalton, L. Folnsbee, M. J. Guardalben, R. Jungquist, J. Puth, M. J. Shoup III, D. Weiner, and J. D. Zuegel, "OMEGA EP: High-energy petawatt capability for the OMEGA laser facility," J. Phys. IV France 133, 75-80 (2006).
20. R. Korniski, and J. K. Lawson, "National Ignition Facility beamline pupil relay plane locations and imaging," in International Optical Design Conference, 2002 OSA Technical Digest Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 2002), p. paper ITuD5.