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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 25, Issue 17, Pages 20142-20155Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.020142
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [61575095, 61505081]
- preresearch Foundation of the CPLA General Equipment Department [9140A2103021513Q02325]
- Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST) [2015QNRC001]
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We present a real-time complex amplitude reconstruction method for determining the beam propagation ratio M-2 of laser beams based on the transport of intensity equation (TIE). In this work, a synchronous acquisition system consisting of two identical CCDs is established. Once two beam intensity images at different cross-section positions along the optical axis are captured simultaneously by the system, the complex amplitude of the laser beam can be rapidly reconstructed using TIE algorithm. Then the beam intensity distribution at any section position along its propagation direction can be obtained by using angular spectrum (AS) theory. The beam quality M2 factor is therefore calculated utilizing the second-order moments and hyperbola fitting methods, which conform to the ISO standard. The suitability of this method is verified by the numerical analysis and experiments with the He-Ne and high-power fiber laser sources, respectively. The experimental technique is simple and fast, which allows to investigate laser beams under conditions inaccessible to other methods. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America
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