Design and fabrication of diffractive elements for laser material processing applications

Mohammad Reza Taghizadeh, Paul Blair, K. Ballüder, Andrew John Waddie, P. Rudman, N. Ross

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Abstract

Diffractive optical elements have an important role to play in the provision of process adapted beam shaping for laser-materials processing applications. The design techniques and dominant methods of fabrication are described for intra-cavity and external beam shaping diffractive elements fabricated in a variety of dielectric and metallic materials for use with a wide range of laser sources. Theoretical and experimental examples are given in each section.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)289-307
Number of pages19
JournalOptics and Lasers in Engineering
Volume34
Issue number4-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2000

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