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Generation Of Generalized-Gauss Laser Beams Via A Spatial Light Modulator, Jessica P. Conry Young, Samantha Dix
Generation Of Generalized-Gauss Laser Beams Via A Spatial Light Modulator, Jessica P. Conry Young, Samantha Dix
Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science
Generalized-Gauss laser beams can be described as a continuous transition between the well-known Hermite-Gauss (HG) and Laguerre-Gauss (LG) laser beams. A spatial light modulator (SLM) was made by removing the liquid crystal display (LCD) from an overhead projector. The homemade SLM, encoded with a computer-generated hologram, was then used to convert a fundamental Gaussian beam from a small frame Helium-Neon (HeNe) laser into several different orders of Generalized-Gauss (GG) beams. The experimentally generated GG beam profiles matched the theoretically expected profiles.