Laser beam shaping : theory and techniques

By F. Dickey, S. Holswade. 2000

472 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Andrew Forbes
2. A. Dudley
3. V. Prakapenka
4. M. Mclaren
5. C. Arnold
6. C. Rosales-Guzmán
7. Yijie Shen

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Andrew Forbes
2. Fengzhou Fang
3. C. Arnold

In Surfaces, Coatings and Films

1. Andrew Forbes
2. C. Arnold

Citations in the corpus

• Advanced flat top laser heating system for high pressure research at GSECARS: application to the melting behavior of germanium (2008, background): “The technology of energy conversion makes it possible to create almost arbitrary intensity distribution of output beams [10].”
• [INVITED] An overview of the state of art in laser welding simulation (2016, background): “As the laser beam is a light, its physics is driven by the classical laws of wave optics that can be found in every book dealing with this subject [59,19].”
• Creation and detection of optical modes with spatial light modulators (2016, background): “In this approach, the first element creates the desired intensity pattern, leaving the phase as a free parameter, and the second element corrects the phase [4].”
• Fundamentals of Laser-Material Interaction and Application to Multiscale Surface Modification (2010, background): “1 and 3). There has been extensive work in the area of beam shaping with a number of articles and books [16, 17 ] as well as a chapter in this book devoted to the subject (Chap.”
• Structured Light from Lasers (2018, background): “Shaping light external to the laser has a history almost as long as the laser itself, coming to the fore in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the ability to design and fabricate complex optical elements for laser beam shaping.[11,12] Foremost among these would be the many seminal works with comput”
• Review on mechanism and process of surface polishing using lasers (2019, background): “Beam shaping is the process of redistribution of the irradiance of the laser beam [38].”