Induced spatial incoherence combined with continuous phase plate for the improved beam smoothing effect

Fujian Li; Yanqi Gao; Xiaohui Zhao; Lailin Ji; Wei Wang; Xiuguang Huang; Weixin Ma; Zhan Sui; Wenbing Pei

doi:10.1117/1.OE.57.6.066117

29 June 2018 Induced spatial incoherence combined with continuous phase plate for the improved beam smoothing effect

Fujian Li, Yanqi Gao, Xiaohui Zhao, Lailin Ji, Wei Wang, Xiuguang Huang, Weixin Ma, Zhan Sui, Wenbing Pei

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 57, Issue 6, 066117 (June 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.6.066117

Abstract

A beam-smoothing method that combines induced spatial incoherence (ISI) and continuous phase plate (CPP) is presented. A method designing special CPPs for ISI is proposed. Then, spatiotemporal character of focal spots with different ISI parameters and different phase plates was numerically analyzed. Using special phase plate consisting of small CPPs designed separately, with 10-nm bandwidth 527-nm light, focal spot nonuniformity at spatial wavelength 10 to 50 μm could be reduced to 2% in 130 ps and was further reduced to 0.5% in 2.3 ns. A two-lens aperture system is added to lower the nonuniformity of the near-field in the light path. Using ISI + CPP, the shape of the focal spot could be controlled perfectly, and the characteristic that the ISI + CPP focal spot changes randomly with time is beneficial to the control of laser and plasma interactions.

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Fujian Li, Yanqi Gao, Xiaohui Zhao, Lailin Ji, Wei Wang, Xiuguang Huang, Weixin Ma, Zhan Sui, and Wenbing Pei "Induced spatial incoherence combined with continuous phase plate for the improved beam smoothing effect," Optical Engineering 57(6), 066117 (29 June 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.6.066117

Received: 27 December 2017; Accepted: 7 June 2018; Published: 29 June 2018

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