Beam shaping and high-speed, cylinder-lens-free beam guiding using acousto-optical deflectors without additional compensation optics

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 14627-14635

  Bechtold, Peter ^a,b   Hohenstein, Ralph ^a,b   Schmidt, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Bayerische Laserzentrum GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); LASER BEAMS; PULSED LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEFLECTORS; BEAM GUIDING; BEAM-SHAPING; CYLINDER LENS; FREQUENCY CHIRPING; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SWITCHING TIME; ULTRASHORT-PULSED LASER;

LENSES;

ACOUSTICS; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; LASER; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

ACOUSTICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LENSES; LIGHTING; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84879334076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.014627     Document Type: Article

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