Thermal-blooming compensation: experimental observations using a deformable-mirror system
- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 15 (4) , 990-995
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.15.000990
Abstract
A laboratory experiment has demonstrated the effectiveness of compensating for forced-convection-dominated cw thermal blooming by using a deformable mirror to add phase corrections to the laser beam. In agreement with theoretical predictions, the peak focal-plane irradiance has been increased by a factor of 3 under severely bloomed conditions.Keywords
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