Diffractive optical components for high power laser beam sampling

Year: 2003

Authors: Ciofini M., Lapucci A., Lolli S.

Autors Affiliation: Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata, Largo E. Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy

Abstract: We investigate the use of low frequency diffraction gratings to extract good quality, low power copies of a high power laser beam. Low frequency gratings are expected to be rugged and to produce few perturbations of the beam under measurement. In order to obtain beam samplers that allow an easy integration in the beam delivery of high power industrial lasers we designed and constructed them as reflective components. In this work we report experimental tests that characterize their performance in the measure of beam parameters such as beam size, waist location and divergence.

Journal/Review: JOURNAL OF OPTICS A-PURE AND APPLIED OPTICS

Volume: 5 (3)      Pages from: 186  to: 191

KeyWords: Carbon dioxide lasers; Diffraction gratings; High power lasers; Laser beams; Laser optics; Numerical analysis; Solid state lasers, High power laser beam; Low frequency diffraction grating, Diffractive optics
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/5/3/308

Citations: 27
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