Some High-Power Laser Applications Of The System Optical Quality (SOQ) Computer Code

A. S.Y. Lau; W. B. King

doi:10.1117/12.931747

15 September 1981 Some High-Power Laser Applications Of The System Optical Quality (SOQ) Computer Code

A. S.Y. Lau, W. B. King

Proceedings Volume 0270, High Power Lasers and Applications; (1981) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.931747
Event: 1981 Los Angeles Technical Symposium, 1980, Los Angeles, United States

Abstract

System optical quality (SOQ) computer code is a diffraction-based optical system simulator. It has often been used as a tool for design, optimization, power management, trade-off analysis, and system end-to-end performance predictions for high power laser applications. The system approach to code development is briefly described. The code also simulates such performance-degrading contributors as the input beam irradiance and phase distributions, mirror thermal distortions and medium thermal blooming, aberrations and misalignments of the beam expander, absorptions, and jitter of the focused spot. Examples of the above uses include applications in optical systems for beam control and laser fusion.

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A. S.Y. Lau and W. B. King "Some High-Power Laser Applications Of The System Optical Quality (SOQ) Computer Code", Proc. SPIE 0270, High Power Lasers and Applications, (15 September 1981); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.931747

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