The application of lasers in high-precision measurements and the demand for accuracy make the planewave model of laser beams unsatisfactory. Measurements of the variance of the transverse components of the photon impulse are essential for wavelength determination. Accuracy evaluation of the relevant calculations is thus an integral part of the assessment of the wavelength of stabilized-laser radiation. We present a propagation-of-error analysis on variance calculations when digitized intensity profiles are obtained by means of silicon video cameras. Image clipping criteria are obtained that maximize the accuracy of the computed result. (C) 2001 Optical Society of America.
Accuracy of laser beam center and width calculations / Mana, Giovanni; Massa, Enrico; Rovera, A.. - In: APPLIED OPTICS. - ISSN 0003-6935. - 40:9(2001), pp. 1378-1385. [10.1364/AO.40.001378]
Accuracy of laser beam center and width calculations
MANA, GIOVANNI;MASSA, ENRICO;
2001
Abstract
The application of lasers in high-precision measurements and the demand for accuracy make the planewave model of laser beams unsatisfactory. Measurements of the variance of the transverse components of the photon impulse are essential for wavelength determination. Accuracy evaluation of the relevant calculations is thus an integral part of the assessment of the wavelength of stabilized-laser radiation. We present a propagation-of-error analysis on variance calculations when digitized intensity profiles are obtained by means of silicon video cameras. Image clipping criteria are obtained that maximize the accuracy of the computed result. (C) 2001 Optical Society of America.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
