Wavefront Shaping by a Small-Aperture Deformable Mirror in the Front Stage for High-Power Laser Systems
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Abstract
We demonstrate a method for wavefront distribution compensation with a low-cost small-aperture deformable mirror in the front stage of a complex high-power solid-state laser system. Meanwhile, an iterative algorithm for improving wavefront quality is indicated. Using this method, the wavefront compensation was studied in our single-shot high-power laser system that operated with and without the main amplifiers, respectively. The wavefront was compensated effectively, showing the near-flopped-shape output with the peak-to-valley value of 0.29 λ and root meam square (RMS) of 0.06 λ at 1053 nm.
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OpenAlex topics: Solid State Laser Technologies · Laser Material Processing Techniques · Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
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Affiliations
Science and Technology on Electro-optical Information Security Control Laboratory, Tianjin 300308, China
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, China
Research Center of Laser Fusion, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, China
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