Industrial, military, medical, and research and development applications of lasers frequently require a beam with a specified irradiance distribution in some plane. A common requirement is a laser profile that is uniform over some cross-section. Such applications include laser/material processing, laser material interaction studies, fiber injection systems, optical data/image processing, lithography, medical applications, and military applications. Laser beam shaping techniques can be divided in to three areas: apertured beams, field mappers, and multi-aperture beam integrators. An uncertainty relation exists for laser beam shaping that puts constraints on system design. In this paper we review the basics of laser beam shaping and present applications and limitations of various techniques.


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    Title :

    Laser beam shaping techniques


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    High-Power Laser Ablation III ; 2000 ; Santa Fe,NM,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2000-08-16





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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