Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 52, Issue 6, 250030(2025)

The design of light intensity gradient trap using lithographic mask and its verification in beam pointing control application

Jinjin Yu1,2, Likang Pan1,2,3, Xu Yang1,2, Ziqiang Li1,2, Hang Yu1,2,3, Liang Gu4, Chao Geng1,2,3、*, and Xinyang Li1,2,3
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  • 1National Laboratory on Adaptive Optics, Chengdu, Sichuan 610209, China
  • 2Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan 610209, China
  • 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 4Hubei Huazhong Changjiang Optoelectronic Technology CO., LTD, Xiaogan, Hubei 432000, China
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    With the advancement of phased fiber laser array technology toward more units, pointing errors between array beams have become a critical factor affecting beam combining performance. To address the challenges in fabricating light-intensity gradient trap modulation plates for beam pointing control based on light-intensity gradient traps, this paper proposes and employs a lithographic mask process to fabricate a light-intensity gradient trap modulation plate with annular stripe patterns. The measured light intensity transmittance aligns with the design value, and the root mean square error (RMSE) of the normalized transmittance is 0.0166. Through simulations and experiments, rapid correction of beam pointing errors in an extended area was achieved using the stochastic parallel gradient descent algorithm and an adaptive fiber-optics collimator. With an initial average beam pointing error of approximately 702 μrad, the mean residual pointing error after correction was reduced to less than 10 μrad. This research provides important references for laser pointing control and beam combining on extended targets.

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    Jinjin Yu, Likang Pan, Xu Yang, Ziqiang Li, Hang Yu, Liang Gu, Chao Geng, Xinyang Li. The design of light intensity gradient trap using lithographic mask and its verification in beam pointing control application[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2025, 52(6): 250030

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    Paper Information

    Category: Article

    Received: Feb. 13, 2025

    Accepted: Apr. 7, 2025

    Published Online: Sep. 3, 2025

    The Author Email: Chao Geng (耿超)

    DOI:10.12086/oee.2025.250030

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