TY - JOUR
T1 - Beam profile analysis of waveguide delivered IR lasers
AU - Croitoru, N.
AU - Gannot, I.
AU - Inberg, A.
AU - Oksman, M.
AU - David, M. Ben
AU - Waynant, R.
AU - Katzir, A.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The study of output laser beam shape as a function of losses, internal diameter, off-center coupling and scattering is presented in this paper. The conditions where the beam shape has good correlation with the source beam shape were found (low losses, center alignment coupling and low scattering). A theoretical model of the mechanism of propagation of the radiation through the hollow waveguides was developed and the conditions under which the shape of beam is changed was calculated. Good agreement between the theoretical and experimental results was found.
AB - The study of output laser beam shape as a function of losses, internal diameter, off-center coupling and scattering is presented in this paper. The conditions where the beam shape has good correlation with the source beam shape were found (low losses, center alignment coupling and low scattering). A theoretical model of the mechanism of propagation of the radiation through the hollow waveguides was developed and the conditions under which the shape of beam is changed was calculated. Good agreement between the theoretical and experimental results was found.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0032643709&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1117/12.346722
DO - 10.1117/12.346722
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AN - SCOPUS:0032643709
SN - 0277-786X
VL - 3596
SP - 14
EP - 22
JO - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
JF - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
T2 - Proceedings of the 1999 Specialty Fiber Optics for Medical Applications
Y2 - 24 January 1999 through 25 January 1999
ER -