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- The study examines how high-power laser systems interact with obstacles, leading to unexpectedly high intensity peaks in nonlinear holographic images.
- It reveals that the interference between plane waves and converging image waves creates intensity maxima that can be significantly greater than the surrounding areas.
- The study provides mathematical expressions for predicting these intensity peaks based on obstacle characteristics and discusses a modeling approach to analyze how various factors like beam size and obstacle properties affect laser performance.
Article Abstract
A study of the maximal intensity peaks due to nonlinear holographic images of obstacles such as obscurations or phase defects in a high-power laser system is presented. It is shown that the interference of the high-power plane wave and the converging image wave results in the formation of intensity maximums in the vicinity of the image plane, the values of which significantly exceed the intensity in the image plane itself. For round obstacles, analytical expressions that describe magnitudes and locations of the maxima depending on the radius and the type of obstacle are given. A procedure of numerical modeling that allows estimation of the influence of beam size, medium thickness, type, size, and shape of obstacles onto the properties of nonlinear images is described. It is demonstrated that for a given combination of the nonlinear medium and the high-power beam parameters, there is an intrinsic size of obstacles that is most harmful for the laser system components.
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