Title :
Fiberoptic "On line" controlling of high intensity laser beam
Author :
M. Sierakowski;A.W. Domanski;T.R. Wolinski;M. Karpierz;M. Swillo
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Phys., Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Poland
Abstract :
The paper discusses possibility of utilising the nonlinear optical properties of liquid crystals (LCs) for laser beam intensity measurements. The presented idea is based on optical phenomena which have been just recently observed in liquid-crystalline media possessing periodically stratified structure. The effects appear by activating light intensities of the order of MW/m/sup 2/, so the method can be potentially applied at present to power laser monitoring (corresponding laser power is approximately 0.1 W).
Keywords :
"Optical control","Fiber lasers","Laser beams","Biomedical optical imaging","Nonlinear optics","Optical attenuators","Laser theory","Fiber nonlinear optics","Geometrical optics","Optical scattering"
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1997. IMTC/97. Proceedings. Sensing, Processing, Networking., IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3747-6
DOI :
10.1109/IMTC.1997.604044
