title: Way of detecting entire beam path aberrations of laser systems based on a phase-retrieval method.
abstract: A method is presented to detect entire beam path aberrations of many laser systems, especially the SG-III inertial confinement fusion (ICF) laser system, which is under construction in China. Instead of a Hartman-Shack (HS) sensor, a CCD will be introduced into the target chamber of the ICF laser system. The HS sensor and the CCD could record the near-field wavefront distributions and the intensity signals of their corresponding focal spots, respectively. An amendatory phase-retrieval method is introduced to reconstruct the aberrations of the entire beam path from near-field wavefront distributions and their corresponding focal spots intensity. Principle experimental results indicate that the aberrations of the entire beam path of a laser system can be precisely detected based on this method.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350 Shuangliu, Chengdu 610209, China. pingyang2516@163.com
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Mingwu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ao
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yuan