Adaptive conversion of multimode beam to neardiffraction-limited flattop beam based on dualphase-only liquid-crystal spatial light modulators

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 27723-27730

  Ma, Haotong ^a   Zhao, Haichuan ^a   Zhou, Pu ^a   Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Ma, Yanxing ^a   Xu, Xiaojun ^a   Liu, Zejin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LASER BEAM WELDING; LIGHT MODULATION; LIQUIDS;

BEAM SHAPES; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; FAR-FIELD; FLAT TOP BEAM; MULTIMODE BEAMS; NEAR FIELDS; OUTPUT BEAM; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; PHASE-ONLY; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; STOCHASTIC PARALLEL GRADIENT DESCENT;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 78650524896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.027723     Document Type: Article

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