Experimental Observations of Thermal-Blooming Compensation Using a Deformable-Mirror System
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A laboratory experiment has demonstrated the effectiveness of compensating for forced-convection-dominated CW thermal blooming by using a deformable mirror to add phase corrections to the laser beam. In agreement with theoretical predictions, the peak focal-plane irradiance has been increased by a factor of 3 under severely bloomed conditions.
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Thermal-Blooming Laboratory Experiments
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