Quick Shot
Pump-Laser Adaptive Optics
October 27, 2014
Optical parametric amplifier (OPA) output-beam quality is sensitive to the pump-beam profile. Leva McIntire investigates optimizing OPA performance using programmable beam shaping with spatial light modulators to improve pump beams. Here, she aligns a phase corrector to a spatial light modulator for laser beam-shaping experiments in the Laser Development Lab.