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9 September 2006 Spatial beam shaping of high power ultra-short laser pulses
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Abstract
We studied the spatial beam profile of a high peak power, ultra-short laser pulse passing through a diffractive beam shaping system. In theoretical simulation, we considered the effects of both group velocity dispersion and nonlinear self-phase modulation on the reshaped beam profile. The output spatial and temporal intensity profile of a 100-fs laser pulse at different energy levels is calculated. We also present the experimental result of the fluence profile at the beam shaping system's target plane for a 1-mJ, 100-fs near infrared laser pulse which is generated from a multi-pass laser amplification system.
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Shuyan Zhang and Gunter Lüpke "Spatial beam shaping of high power ultra-short laser pulses", Proc. SPIE 6290, Laser Beam Shaping VII, 62900E (9 September 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.678503
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KEYWORDS
Beam shaping

Pulsed laser operation

Amplifiers

Dispersion

Laser applications

Modulation

Optical simulations

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