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Simple Scheme for Variable High Power Laser Beam Attenuation
Review of Scientific Instruments (1987)
  • Stephen E. Bialkowski, Utah State University
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Abstract

A venetian style infrared attenuator placed prior to a pinhole spatial filter results in variable high‐power laser attenuation. This attenuation scheme has a wide dynamic range, results in high‐quality Gaussian beams, does not introduce beam walk‐off error, and is independent of polarization.

Keywords
  • variable,
  • high power,
  • laser,
  • attenuation
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Publication Date
January 1, 1987
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Published by AIP © 1987 American Institute of Physics Article can also be found at: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/rsi/58/12/10.1063/1.1139651
Citation Information
Simple Scheme for Variable High Power Laser Beam Attenuation Stephen E. Bialkowski Review of Scientific Instruments 58 2338 1987