PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.
Phase aberrations are ubiquitous in optical systems and can lead to the degradation of laser beam quality. The laser beam quality factor is an important parameter that can be used to determine the quality of a laser beam. In this work, we derive analytical expressions for the beam quality factor of Laguerre-Gaussian beams due to different types of astigmatism: 0° astigmatism, 45° astigmatism, x-triangular astigmatism, and y-triangular astigmatism. The results show that the beam waist radius is an important parameter in determining the effect of astigmatism on the beam quality factor of LG optical beams.
Chemist M. Mabena,Teboho Bell, andDarryl Naidoo
"Modelling the effect of astigmatism on the beam quality factor of Laguerre-Gaussian optical beams", Proc. SPIE 12399, Solid State Lasers XXXII: Technology and Devices, 123990H (8 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2650192
ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE
INSTITUTIONAL Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.
PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.
The alert did not successfully save. Please try again later.
Chemist M. Mabena, Teboho Bell, Darryl Naidoo, "Modelling the effect of astigmatism on the beam quality factor of Laguerre-Gaussian optical beams," Proc. SPIE 12399, Solid State Lasers XXXII: Technology and Devices, 123990H (8 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2650192