• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 13, Issue Suppl., S21410 (2015)
Jisi Qiu*, Xiongxin Tang, Zhongwei Fan, and Haocheng Wang
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  • The Academy of Opto-electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
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    Jisi Qiu, Xiongxin Tang, Zhongwei Fan, Haocheng Wang. Super-Gaussian, flat-top, distributed laser output with high-quality beam shaping by digital micro-mirror device in high-energy laser system[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2015, 13(Suppl.): S21410 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    To obtain a laser output with a high-quality beam and a square, super-Gaussian, flat-top distribution, a high-energy laser needs to conduct spatial reshaping of the geometric outline of an injected Gaussian laser pulse and the non-uniform gain of multi-level energy amplification units. A digital micro-mirror device is very suitable for a working environment that has a high electromagnetic interference in a high-energy laser system. We present an algorithm and an experiment of spatial beam shaping that is based on the use of a digital micro-mirror device. Through secondary shaping, the near-field modulation degree of the beam (the ratio of the maximum value of the light intensity to the average value) decreases from 1.791 (after primary shaping) to 1.241, an improvement of 30.7%. The energy loss is 32.9%. Meanwhile, the beam after secondary shaping possesses extremely strong stability. Under the condition where the input-shaping aperture remains unchanged, the dispersity of the near-field modulation degree of the output beam is only 1.6%. Thus, the influences of the environmental changes and the random distribution of the “noise” in the beam intensity distribution are reduced.
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    Jisi Qiu, Xiongxin Tang, Zhongwei Fan, Haocheng Wang. Super-Gaussian, flat-top, distributed laser output with high-quality beam shaping by digital micro-mirror device in high-energy laser system[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2015, 13(Suppl.): S21410
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