Beam spatial intensity modification based on stimulated Brillouin amplification

Y Wang, C Cui, Z Lu, Z Bai, Y Wang, H Yuan - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The beam spatial intensity distribution is critical to laser applications both in the scientific
and the industrial fields. Here, a method for beam spatial intensity modification based on …

Beam shaping laser with controllable gain

IA Litvin, G King, H Strauss - Applied Physics B, 2017 - Springer
We propose a novel intra-cavity laser beam shaping technique based on the manipulation of
the transverse gain profile in the laser crystal. The method allows controllable reshaping of a …

Realizing Gaussian to flat-top beam shaping in traveling-wave amplification

T Zhao, Z Fan, H Xiao, K Huang, Z Bai, W Ge… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We implement Gaussian to flat-top beam shaping in a master oscillator power amplifier
(MOPA) laser system by directing a Gaussian seed laser beam into a side-pumped laser …

Extra-cavity laser beam shaping using an Nd: YAG amplifier

T Bell, G King, I Litvin - Laser Resonators, Microresonators …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This work proposes a method that can be used to control the transverse profile of the optical
intensity distribution of a diode-end-pumped solid-state laser operating with a Gaussian …

Controllable beam shaping of coherent and incoherent beams by a laser amplifier

IA Litvin, G King - Laser Physics Letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose the technique for a controllable manipulation of the transverse intensity
distribution of an output beam by the temporal adjustment of a transverse gain profile in a …