Simple intra-cavity beam shaping for generating a shape-invariant flat-top laser beam

Oussama Bouzid (1) , Abdelkrim Hasnaoui (2) , Kamel Ait-Ameur (3, 4)

1 IOMP - Institut d'optique et mécanique de précision [Université Ferhat Abbas Sétif 1]
2 SNIRM - Laboratoire Sciences Nucléaires et Interaction Rayonnement Matière
3 CIMAP - UMR 6252 - Centre de recherche sur les Ions, les MAtériaux et la Photonique
4 OML - Optique, Matériaux et Laser

For laser users, the usual Gaussian beam (GB) may not always be the best intensity profile. Often, a preferred option is a Flat-Top (FT) beam which is generally obtained by using diffractive optics in a reshaping operation. In this case, the resulting FT profile occurs only in the focal plane of the focusing lens, and its vicinity. We consider here the generation of a shape-invariant FT laser beam resulting from the incoherent weighted (50%-50% in power) mixing of LG00 (GB) and LG01 (doughnut) beams. For that we consider the insertion inside the laser cavity of a diaphragm and an absorbing ring, and optimising their sizes makes possible the simultaneous oscillation on LG00 and LG01 modes allowing the generation of a shape-invariant laser beam.

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Oussama Bouzid, Abdelkrim Hasnaoui, Kamel Ait-Ameur. Simple intra-cavity beam shaping for generating a shape-invariant flat-top laser beam. Optik, 2020, 201, pp.163494 -. ⟨10.1016/j.ijleo.2019.163494⟩. ⟨hal-03488506⟩