Impact of phase errors at the conjugate step on the propagation of intensity and phase shaped laser beams
Date
2007
Authors
Litvin I.A.
Forbes A.
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Abstract
We investigate the phase conjugating element of a two element Fourier transform beam shaping scheme and the impact this element has on the resulting propagation. We show that there are stricter limitations placed on the system when using such a phase correcting element, and that even at 10× the previous limits one can observe intensity errors due to inaccurate phase conjugation.
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Diffraction, Error analysis, Fourier transforms, Geometrical optics, Light propagation, Optical phase conjugation, Beam shaping, Fourier transform beam shaping, Phase errors, Phase shaped laser beams, Laser beams
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Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
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