Investigation of computer-generated diffractive beam shapers for flattening of single-modal CO2 laser beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 1995, Pages 2489-2497

  Duparre M ^a   Golub, M A ^a,b   Ludge B ^a   Pavelyev, V S ^b   Soifer, V A ^b   Uspleniev, G V ^b   Volotovskii, S G ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Image Processing Systems Inst   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Beam shapers; Binary optics; Computer generated holograms; Diffraction efficiency; Diffractive optics; Measurement of intensity patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975647317     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.34.002489     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Y. S. Liu, "Sources, optics, and laser microfabrication system for direct writing and projection lithography," in Laser Microfabrication, D. J. Ehrlich and J. Y. Tsao, eds. (Academic, London, 1989), pp. 3-84.
2. W. B. Veldkamp and C. J. Kastner, "Beam profile shaping for laser radars that use detector arrays," Appl. Opt. 21, 345-356 (1982).
3. W. B. Veldkamp, "Laser beam profile shaping with interlaced binary diffraction gratings," Appl. Opt. 21, 3209-3212 (1982).
4. J. Cordingley, "Application of a binary diffractive optic for beam shaping in semiconductor processing by lasers," Appl. Opt. 32, 2538-2542 (1994).
5. O. Bryngdahl, "Geometrical transformation in optics," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 64, 1092-1099 (1974).
6. M. A. Golub, S. V. Karpeev, A. M. Prokhorov, I. N. Sisakyan, and V. A. Soifer, "Focusing light into a specified volume by computer synthesized holograms," Sov. Tech. Phys. Lett. 7, 264-266 (1981).
7. C.-Y. Han, Y. Ishii, and K. Murata, "Reshaping collimated laser beams with Gaussian profile to uniform profiles," Appl. Opt. 22, 3644-3647 (1983).
8. N. C. Roberts, "Beam shaping by holographic filters," Appl. Opt. 28, 31-32 (1989).
9. N. C. Roberts, "Multilevel computer-generated holograms with separable phase functions for beam shaping," Appl. Opt. 31, 3198-3199 (1992).
10. M. A. Golub, L. L. Doskolovich, N. L. Kazanskiy, I. N. Sisakyan, V. A. Soifer, and S. I. Kharitonov, "Computational experiment with focusator of Gaussian beam into the rectangle with uniform intensity," Comput. Opt. 7, 42-49 (1990).
11. M. A. Golub, I. N. Sisakyan, and V. A. Soifer, "Infrared radiation focusators," Opt. Lasers Eng. 15, 297-309 (1991).
12. C. C. Aleksoff, K. K. Ellis, and B. D. Neagle, "Holographic conversion of a Gaussian beam to a near-field uniform beam," Opt. Eng. 30, 537-543 (1991).
13. V. A. Soifer and M. A. Golub, "Diffractive micro-optical element with nonpoint response," in Miniature and Micro-Optics: Fabrication and System Applications II, C. Roychoudhuri and W. B. Veldkamp, eds., Proc. Soc. Photo-Opt. Instrum. Eng. 1751, 140-151 (1993).
14. L. L. Doskolovich, M. A. Golub, N. L. Kazanskiy, S. I. Kharitonov, and V. A. Soifer, "Diffraction investigation of focusators into plane area," in Sixteenth Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics as a Key to High Technology, G. Akos, T. Lippenyi, G. Lupkovics, and A. Podmaniczky, eds., Proc. Soc. Photo-Opt. Instrum. Eng. 1983, 656-657 (1993).
15. R. M. Stevenson, M. J. Norman, T. H. Bett, D. A. Pepler, C. N. Danson, and I. N. Ross, "Binary-phase zone plate arrays for the generation of uniform focal profiles," Opt. Lett. 19, 363- 365 (1994).
16. M. T. Eismann, A. M. Tai, and J. N. Cederquist, "Iterative design of holographic beam former," Appl. Opt. 28, 2641-2650 (1989).
17. M. A. Golub, L. L. Doskolovich, V. V. Kotlyar, and V. A. Soifer, "Iterative-phase method for diffractive flattening of the Gaussian beam intensity," Comput. Opt. 13, 30-33 (1993).
18. A. Sommerfeld, Vorlesungen über Theoretische Physik, Band IV (Optik) (Verlag Harri Deutsch, Thun Frankfurt, 1989), Chaps. 34 and 35.