Programmable beam shaping of femtosecond pulses

N. Sanner,Nicolas Huot,Eric Audouard,P. Laporte,C. Larat,J. Bourderionnet,Arnaud Brignon,Jean-Pierre Huignard

Programmable beam shaping of femtosecond pulses

2004

N. Sanner
Nicolas Huot
Eric Audouard
P. Laporte
C. Larat
J. Bourderionnet
Arnaud Brignon
Jean-Pierre Huignard

We demonstrate programmable beam shaping of femtosecond pulses. A liquid crystal modulator is used as an active and adaptive phase filtering device for spatial beam shaping. Round, square, ring and triangle shapes are obtained.

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Adaptive optics
Optical filter
Liquid crystal
Optics
Phase modulation
Physics
Beam (structure)
Femtosecond
Femtosecond pulse shaping
Modulation
Optoelectronics
Filter (signal processing)

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