MEASUREMENT OF SPATIAL COHERENCE OF A COPPER VAPOR LASER-BEAM USING A REVERSAL SHEAR INTERFEROMETER

被引:13
作者
OMATSU, T
KURODA, K
SHIMURA, T
CHIHARA, K
ITOH, M
OGURA, I
机构
[1] Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Toyko, 106, Roppongi, Minatoku
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10.1007/BF00619643
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We measured the spatial coherence of a copper vapour laser (CVL) beam with an unstable resonator by the reversal shear interferometer. By this method, we can evaluate the spatial coherence function from a single-shot measurement. The spatial coherence width was 5 mm when an unstable resonator with a magnification factor of 60 was used. Moreover we verified the result by the theoretical calculation on the basis of the passive resonator model.
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