Open AccessStudy of small-scale self-focusing in laser beams by high-order contrast
Author(s) -
Yi Xu-g,
Hu Wei,
Hailu Luo,
JunJie Zhu
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.54.749
Subject(s) - contrast (vision) , optics , scale (ratio) , high contrast , order (exchange) , physics , laser , quantum mechanics , finance , economics
In this paper, high_order contrast is brought forward for studying small_scale self_focusing phenomenon in high_power solid state laser drivers. Based on the properties of semi_invariant, we obtain the analytic expressions of high_order contrast of near field of beams. Finally, we study the propagation of plane waves with PSD phase noise and obtain the evolution of fill factor, modulation, contra st, third_order contrast and fourth_order contrast with Bintegral value. C omparing the results of numerical simulation, we find that third_order contrast and fourth_order contrast are good parameters for characterizing the small_scale self_focusing phenomenon.