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Tilt of the input beam to a beam expander, introduced for fast-steering purposes, leads to aberrations in the output beam. Properties of the aberrations in the output beam and their dependence on system parameters were investigated computationally by use of a recently-developed ray-tracing code. Methods for reducing the aberrations were also studied.
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Cason, C., Jones, R. W., and Perkins, J. F., 1980, Optical Quality of Tilted Spherical Mirror Unstable Resonators, J. de Physique C9: 385.
Perkins, J. F. and Cason, C., 1980, Spherical-Aberration-Free Unstable Resonator with Spherical Primary Mirror, J. de Physique C9: 393.
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Jones, R.W., Cason, C., Perkins, J.F. (1984). Aberrations in Laser Beam Expanders Due to Tilt of Input Beam. In: Onorato, M. (eds) Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7067-7_58
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