Thermal-blooming compensation: experimental observations using a deformable-mirror system.
A laboratory experiment has demonstrated the effectiveness of compensating for forced-convection-dominated cw thermal blooming by using a deformable mirror to add phase corrections to the laser beam. In agreement with theoretical predictions, the peak focal-plane irradiance has been increased by a factor of 3 under severely bloomed conditions.
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