中国物理B ›› 2020, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (6): 64206-064206.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab81f1

• ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS • 上一篇    下一篇

M2-factor of high-power laser beams through a multi-apertured ABCD optical system

Xiangmei Zeng(曾祥梅), Meizhi Zhang(张美志), Dongmei Cao(曹冬梅), Dingyu Sun(孙鼎宇), Hua Zhou(周花)   

  1. 1 School of Electronic Engineering, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an 710121, China;
    2 School of Physics and Electronic Information, Yanan Univeristiy, Yanan 716000, China
  • 收稿日期:2019-08-20 修回日期:2020-02-04 出版日期:2020-06-05 发布日期:2020-06-05
  • 通讯作者: Xiangmei Zeng E-mail:xmzz79@163.com
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the Science Fund from the Shaanxi Provincial Education Department, China (Grant No. 18JK0723).

M2-factor of high-power laser beams through a multi-apertured ABCD optical system

Xiangmei Zeng(曾祥梅)1, Meizhi Zhang(张美志)1, Dongmei Cao(曹冬梅)2, Dingyu Sun(孙鼎宇)1, Hua Zhou(周花)1   

  1. 1 School of Electronic Engineering, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an 710121, China;
    2 School of Physics and Electronic Information, Yanan Univeristiy, Yanan 716000, China
  • Received:2019-08-20 Revised:2020-02-04 Online:2020-06-05 Published:2020-06-05
  • Contact: Xiangmei Zeng E-mail:xmzz79@163.com
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the Science Fund from the Shaanxi Provincial Education Department, China (Grant No. 18JK0723).

摘要: Based on the generalized truncated second-order moments, an approximate analytical formula of the beam propagation factor M2 of high-power laser beams passing through the optical system with multiple hard-edged apertures is deduced. Numerical examples of the beams passing through an aperture-spatial filter are enclosed, and the influences of amplitude modulations (AMs) and phase fluctuations (PFs) on the beam propagation quality of high-power laser beams passing through the multi-apertured ABCD optical system are considered and discussed. It is shown that PFs are able to degrade the beam propagation quality of laser beams more than AMs when the high-power laser beams passing through the aperture-spatial filter, furthermore, one or two aperture-lens optical systems configured appropriate aperture parameters are both able to upgrade the beam propagation quality of high-power laser beams. The M2 factor of Gaussian beam passing through the multi-aperture optical system is a special case in this paper.

关键词: amplitude modulations (AMs), phase fluctuations (PFs), multiple hard-edged aperture, beam propagation factor

Abstract: Based on the generalized truncated second-order moments, an approximate analytical formula of the beam propagation factor M2 of high-power laser beams passing through the optical system with multiple hard-edged apertures is deduced. Numerical examples of the beams passing through an aperture-spatial filter are enclosed, and the influences of amplitude modulations (AMs) and phase fluctuations (PFs) on the beam propagation quality of high-power laser beams passing through the multi-apertured ABCD optical system are considered and discussed. It is shown that PFs are able to degrade the beam propagation quality of laser beams more than AMs when the high-power laser beams passing through the aperture-spatial filter, furthermore, one or two aperture-lens optical systems configured appropriate aperture parameters are both able to upgrade the beam propagation quality of high-power laser beams. The M2 factor of Gaussian beam passing through the multi-aperture optical system is a special case in this paper.

Key words: amplitude modulations (AMs), phase fluctuations (PFs), multiple hard-edged aperture, beam propagation factor

中图分类号:  (Modulation, tuning, and mode locking)

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42.55.-f (Lasers) 42.79.Ag (Apertures, collimators) 42.60.Fc (Modulation, tuning, and mode locking)