• Acta Optica Sinica
  • Vol. 29, Issue 3, 582 (2009)
Wang Sanhong*, Liang Yonghui, Long Xuejun, Xie Wenke, Mao Hongjun, and Yu Qifeng
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    Wang Sanhong, Liang Yonghui, Long Xuejun, Xie Wenke, Mao Hongjun, Yu Qifeng. Experimental Research for Real-Time Beam Cleanup in Turbulence Based on Stochastic Parallel-Gradient-Descent Method[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2009, 29(3): 582 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Adaptive optics can be used to compensate wave-front aberrations of output beam from high-power laser system for improving beam quality. To investigate the feasibility of adaptive optics method based on the stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) for beam cleanup, a SPGD adaptive optics system with iterative rate of 100 Hz is built up, in which a high-speed photodetector is used as the measurement device of the system′s performance evaluation function, and a high-speed deformable mirror is served as the wave-front corrector. Dynamic wave-front aberrations caused by the heat flow turbulence of a resistance coil, are corrected in-real-time by the SPGD adaptive optics system. The experimental results show that the above-mentioned system can correct dynamic wave-front aberrations changing in the frequency range of 4 Hz below, resulting in both a 2.2-fold increase of the energy and a 1.4-fold increase of the stability of the far-field spot in the pinhole. It is indicated that the SPGD adaptive optics method is feasible for beam cleanup system.
    Wang Sanhong, Liang Yonghui, Long Xuejun, Xie Wenke, Mao Hongjun, Yu Qifeng. Experimental Research for Real-Time Beam Cleanup in Turbulence Based on Stochastic Parallel-Gradient-Descent Method[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2009, 29(3): 582
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