为了改善非稳腔高能激光系统的光束质量, 提高发射光学系统口径的利用率, 采用新型的可用于光学非稳腔输出环形光束的光学整形方法, 通过在激光腔外的光路上增加光学元件对输出的环形激光束进行了整形变换。在理论分析的基础上, 设计并加工了基于双轴锥镜的光束整形装置, 针对非稳腔高能激光器输出的环形光束进行了整形实验, 取得了与理论分析一致的数据。结果表明, 采用双轴锥镜装置整形后的光束比原始光束具有更好的光束质量, 光束束腰直径由45mm减小为32mm, 光束质量因子M2由14减小到11.8。该方法用于光学非稳腔输出环形光束整形变换具有可行性。

In order to improvelaser beam quality of unstable cavity high energy laser systems and the utilization of the aperture of a transmitting optical system, a new optical shaping method for the annular beam was proposed. Optical elements were added to the light path outside the laser cavity to shape the output of annular laser beam. On the basis of theoretical analysis, beam shaping devices based on dual axicons were designed and fabricated. The shaping experiments were carried out for the annular beam from an unstable cavity high energy laser. The data was obtained and was consistent with theoretical analysis.The results show that, the beam after shaping by using dual axicons has better beam quality than that of the original beam. Waist diameter decreases from 45mm to 32mm. M2 factor reduces from 14 to 11.8. The method is feasible for the shaping and transformation of the annular beam from an unstable resonator.