Ms. Liesl Burger Profile

Liesl Burger

at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

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Publications (9)

Proceedings Article | 25 September 2015 Paper

Intracavity beam shaping using an SLM

L. Burger, I. Litvin, S. Ngcobo, A. Forbes

Proceedings Volume 9581, 95810A (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188593

KEYWORDS: Spatial light modulators, Resonators, Mirrors, Reflectivity, Beam shaping, Polarization, Phase shift keying, Amplitude modulation, Liquid crystals, Beam splitters

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Proceedings Article | 23 June 2014 Paper

How to make a digital laser

L. Burger, I. Litvin, S. Ngcobo, A. Forbes

Proceedings Volume 9257, 925706 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2066248

KEYWORDS: Spatial light modulators, Resonators, Reflectivity, Mirrors, Phase shift keying, Amplitude modulation, Liquid crystals, Polarization, Laser resonators, Beam shaping

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Proceedings Article | 4 March 2014 Paper

The digital laser: on-demand laser modes with the click of a button

A. Forbes, S. Ngcobo, L. Burger, I. Litvin

Proceedings Volume 8960, 89601K (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2048372

KEYWORDS: Spatial light modulators, Laser resonators, Modes of laser operation, Polarization, Mirrors, Digital holography, Holograms, Reflectivity, Diffraction, Phase shift keying

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Proceedings Article | 4 March 2014 Paper

Digital control of laser modes with an intra-cavity spatial light modulator

Sandile Ngcobo, Igor Litvin, Liesl Burger, Andrew Forbes

Proceedings Volume 8960, 89601X (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2038927

KEYWORDS: Digital holography, Modes of laser operation, Holograms, Spatial light modulators, Laser resonators, Holography, Mirrors, Beam controllers, Reflectivity, Resonators

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Proceedings Article | 3 September 2008 Paper

Porro prism lasers: a new perspective

Liesl Burger, Andrew Forbes

Proceedings Volume 7070, 70700L (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.793702

KEYWORDS: Resonators, Prisms, Mirrors, Optical components, Lenses, Polarization, Q switched lasers, Q switching, Laser applications, Laser resonators

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Proceedings Article | 12 September 2007 Paper

Laser beam shaping limitations for laboratory simulation of turbulence using a phase-only spatial light modulator

Igor Litvin, Liesl Burger, Mapula De Gama, Ally Mathye, Andrew Forbes

Proceedings Volume 6663, 66630R (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.737306

KEYWORDS: Turbulence, Spatial light modulators, Optical simulations, Diffraction, Atmospheric turbulence, Phase shifts, Adaptive optics, Zernike polynomials, Binary data, Wavefronts

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