Improving the brightness of a multi-kilowatt single thin-disk laser by an aspherical phase front correction

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 799-801

  Blázquez Sánchez, David ^a   Weichelt, Birgit ^a   Austerschulte, Armin ^a   Voss, Andreas ^a   Graf, Thomas ^a   Killi, Alexander ^b   Eckstein, Hans Christoph ^c   Stumpf, Marko ^c   Matthes, Andre Lothar ^c   Zeitner, Uwe Detlef ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b TRUMPF LASER UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHERICAL; ASPHERICAL MIRRORS; BEAM PROPAGATION FACTOR; LASER CUTTING; OUTPUT POWER; PHASE FRONT; THIN-DISK LASERS;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 79952848723     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.000799     Document Type: Article

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