Reduction of laser imprinting using polarization smoothing on a solid-state fusion laser

被引：223

作者：

Boehly, TR ^{[1
]}

Smalyuk, VA ^{[1
]}

Meyerhofer, DD ^{[1
]}

Knauer, JP ^{[1
]}

Bradley, DK ^{[1
]}

Craxton, RS ^{[1
]}

Guardalben, MJ ^{[1
]}

Skupsky, S ^{[1
]}

Kessler, TJ ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Rochester, Laser Energet Lab, Rochester, NY 14623 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS | 1999年 / 85卷 / 07期

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D O I：

10.1063/1.369702

中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

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摘要：

We demonstrate a laser beam-smoothing technique known as polarization smoothing. A birefringent optical wedge splits the individual laser beams into two orthogonally polarized beams that, when coupled with a distributed phase plate, produce two speckle patterns shifted with respect to one another. This instantaneously reduces the on-target nonuniformity by a factor of root 2. We measured this reduction optically and its effect is demonstrated in laser-driven targets. (C) 1999 American Institute of Physics. [S0021-8979(99)06407-5].

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页码：3444 / 3447

页数：4

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