Off-axis collimation of diode laser beams by means of single-element holographic diffractive optics文档.pdfVIP

ARTICLE IN PRESS Optics and Lasers in Engineering 44 (2006) 991–1007 Off-axis collimation of diode laser beams by means of single-element holographic diffractive optics M. Miler, J. Pala, I. Aubrecht, M. Hradil Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics AS, 182 51 Praha-Kobylisy, Czech Republic Available online 3 October 2005 Abstract Principles of single-element holographic diffractive optics for collimation of diode laser beams with a large divergence, an elliptic cross-section, and astigmatism are presented. Holographic off-axis transformation enables collimation of the beam in two variants: one with a perpendicular input beam and an oblique output beam, and the other with the beams arranged vice-versa. Diffraction due to an elliptic aperture is analyzed. Inspection of experimental samples demonstrates an agreement with theory in the case of diffraction limited focal pattern and shows increase of astigmatism with the departure from diffraction only limitation. r 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Collimator; Diode laser; Elliptic aperture; Astigmatism; Holographic element; Diffractive optics 1. Introduction Diode lasers are widely spread light sources in contemporary world of optics and photonics. Although surface emitting devices are available vast amount of diode lasers in use are of edge-emitting nature. Such sources emit coherent light beam from Corresponding author. Tel.: +420 266 773 430; fax: +420 284 680 222. E-mail address: miler@ure.cas.cz (M. Miler). 0143-8166/$ - see front matter r 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.optlaseng.2005.06.014 ARTICLE IN PRESS 992 M. Miler et al