High power lasers and adaptive optics

Author

Kudryashov, A.V. ; Samarkin, V.V. ; Aleksandrov, A.G. ; Rukosuev, A.L. ; Zavalova, V.E. ; Sheldakova, J.V.

Author_Institution

Adopt Ltd., Moscow, Russia

fYear

2005

fDate

12-17 June 2005

Firstpage

419

Abstract

Adaptive optics to improve beam quality of the high power lasers, including femtosecond lasers increased greatly during last years - good laser beam quality is essential for many scientific and industrial applications. In this paper, a recent result in the application of our adaptive optical systems to correct for the aberrations of various laser beams is presented. Our adaptive system consists of a semipassive bimorph mirror with a number of control electrodes as a wavefront corrector, Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor, block of electronics and software performed to work with standard PC.

Keywords

aberrations; adaptive optics; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; mirrors; wavefront sensors; Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor; aberrations; adaptive optics; block of electronics; femtosecond lasers; high power lasers; laser beams; semipassive bimorph mirror; wavefront corrector; Adaptive optics; Adaptive systems; Application software; Electrical equipment industry; Laser beams; Optical beams; Optical sensors; Power lasers; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005. CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8974-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568197

Filename

1568197