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Construction and Characterization of External Cavity Diode Lasers for Atomic Physics
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Spatial mode control of a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser by an intracavity liquid-crystal light valve
Optics Letters
|December 7, 2007
Abstract:
We present a new beam-shaping technique with an intracavity optically addressed liquid-crystal spatial light modulator. The Nd:YAG resonator is able to deliver beams with various spatial profiles such as flat-topped super-Gaussian and square-shaped beams.

