Performance of a thermal-piezoelectric deformable mirror under 6.2 kW continuous-wave operation

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 34, 2013, Pages 8363-8368

  Reinlein, Claudia ^a   Appelfelder, Michael ^b   Goy, Matthias ^b   Ludewigt, Klaus ^c   Tünnermann, Andreas ^b  

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

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c Rheinmetall W and M GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DEFORMATION; HIGH POWER LASERS; MIRRORS; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

CONTINUOUS WAVE OPERATION; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; HIGH POWER DENSITY; HIGH-POWER LASER SYSTEMS; LASER INDUCED; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATION; SINGLE ACTUATORS; THERMAL LENSING;

LASER MIRRORS;

EID: 84889600845     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.008363     Document Type: Article

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