Beam shaping with a laser amplifier

Igor A. Litvin; Oliver J. P. Collett

doi:10.1117/12.2039005

4 March 2014 Beam shaping with a laser amplifier

Proceedings Volume 8960, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XVI; 89601N (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2039005
Event: SPIE LASE, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We propose a new technique for laser beam shaping namely the reshaping of the laser beam into a desirable beam profile by the use of a laser amplifier with a pump beam that has a modified intensity profile. We developed the analytical formula which describes the transformation of the seed beam into the desired beam profile in the amplifiers small signal regime. In the case were high pump power saturated the laser crystal we have shown the method of reshaping of the seed beam into desirable beam by a numerically obtained pump intensity profile. The method can also be extended for shaped seed beams with fixed profile pump.

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Igor A. Litvin and Oliver J. P. Collett "Beam shaping with a laser amplifier", Proc. SPIE 8960, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XVI, 89601N (4 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2039005

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