Beam quality measurements by modal decomposition using a spatial light modulator

Shaohua Pan; Jun Ma; Hailun Liu; Tu Ba

doi:10.1117/12.2241730

28 October 2016 Beam quality measurements by modal decomposition using a spatial light modulator

Shaohua Pan, Jun Ma, Hailun Liu, Tu Ba

Proceedings Volume 9683, 8th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies: Advanced Optical Manufacturing Technologies; 96831E (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241730
Event: Eighth International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technology (AOMATT2016), 2016, Suzhou, China

Abstract

We present a fast , easy and real-time method for measuring the laser beam quality factor, M² , using a spatial light modulator(SLM). We import computer-generated holograms into the spatial light modulator. Then the laser beams are reflected by the SLM and transfer through a fourier transform lens, composed into different kinds of modes which are received by a CCD. The M² value can be obtained by analyzing and calculating the modal weighting coefficients of different modes. In this paper, two different kinds of softwares , Matlab and VirtualLab, are used to implement the numerical simulations of the experiment process, so that the feasibility of the algorithm can be proved. In the end, we set up the experimental platform and implement the experiments with measuring laser beam quality factor, M2 , using a he-ne laser as the light source. The comparison with the theoretical value and the simulative value proves the reliability of the experiments.

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Shaohua Pan, Jun Ma, Hailun Liu, and Tu Ba "Beam quality measurements by modal decomposition using a spatial light modulator", Proc. SPIE 9683, 8th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies: Advanced Optical Manufacturing Technologies, 96831E (28 October 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241730

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