Two-dimensional-simulation of thermal blooming effects in ring pattern laser beams

Mohammad Hossein Mahdieh; B. Lotfi

doi:10.1117/1.2050427

1 September 2005 Two-dimensional-simulation of thermal blooming effects in ring pattern laser beams

Mohammad Hossein Mahdieh, B. Lotfi

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 44, Issue 9, 096001 (September 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2050427

Abstract

Thermal blooming is a major effect in high power laser beams transmitting through gaseous medium as well as the atmosphere. Due to this effect, the beam pattern is deformed through the propagation path. In this work, a ring pattern beam from a high-power CO₂ laser with an unstable resonator is evaluated when propagating through a high-pressure CO₂ gas, and the results are compared with those of the Gaussian beam. The results show that unlike the initial Gaussian beam from which a ring pattern formed when propagating through an absorbing medium, for the initial ring pattern beam, in the absence of the gas flow, a symmetrical two-fold pattern is formed due to the blooming effect. The results also show that such symmetry can be deformed in the presence of gas flow.

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Mohammad Hossein Mahdieh and B. Lotfi "Two-dimensional-simulation of thermal blooming effects in ring pattern laser beams," Optical Engineering 44(9), 096001 (1 September 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2050427

Published: 1 September 2005

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