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27 January 1989Apodized Apertures For Infrared And Visible High-Power Lasers
Simple apodized (soft) apertures (AA) were fabricated for use in laser physics to avoid hard-edge Fresnel diffraction in the beam spatial-intensity profile. These AA of ≈ 2-45 mm diameter have approximately Gaussian and super-Gaussian transmission function in the visible and infrared band. They have high threshold for intensity damage.
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Svetlana G. Lukishova, "Apodized Apertures For Infrared And Visible High-Power Lasers," Proc. SPIE 0965, Current Developments in Optical Engineering III, (27 January 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948007