title: Kinoform phase plates for focal plane irradiance profile control.
abstract: A versatile, rapidly convergent, iterative algorithm is presented for the construction of kinoform phase plates for tailoring the far-field intensity distribution of laser beams. The method consists of repeated Fourier transforming between the near-field and the far-field planes with constraints imposed in each plane. For application to inertial confinement fusion, the converged far-field pattern contains more than 95% of the incident energy inside a desired region and is relatively insensitive to beam aberrations.
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Dixit
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Lawson
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Manes
authors.forename: H T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Powell
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Nugent