CONVERSION OF HERMITE-GAUSSIAN AND LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN BEAMS IN AN ASTIGMATIC OPTICAL-SYSTEM - 1 - EXPERIMENT

Authors
ALEKSEEV AN ALEKSEEV KN BORODAVKA OS VOLYAR AV FRIDMAN YA
Citation
An. Alekseev et al., CONVERSION OF HERMITE-GAUSSIAN AND LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN BEAMS IN AN ASTIGMATIC OPTICAL-SYSTEM - 1 - EXPERIMENT, Technical physics letters, 24(9), 1998, pp. 694-696
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Technical physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10637850
Volume
24
Issue
9
Year of publication
1998
Pages
694 - 696
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-7850(1998)24:9<694:COHALB>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
The workings of a mode converter providing energy-effective conversion of an Hermite-Gaussian beam to a Laguerre-Gaussian beam and vice vers a are analyzed experimentally. The converter is an astigmatic Fourier transformer consisting of a system of two cylindrical lenses with perp endicular principal planes lying between two spherical lenses. It is s hown that this device is less sensitive to the mating of the astigmati c elements. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.