Compensation of thermal effects in acousto-optic deflector

Vladimir I. Balakshy; Vitaly B. Voloshinov; Vladimir A. Karasev; Vladimir Ya. Molchanov; Victor Semenkov

doi:10.1117/12.234185

1 March 1996 Compensation of thermal effects in acousto-optic deflector

Vladimir I. Balakshy, Vitaly B. Voloshinov, Vladimir A. Karasev, Vladimir Ya. Molchanov, Victor Semenkov

Proceedings Volume 2713, Fifth International Conference on Industrial Lasers and Laser Applications '95; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.234185
Event: Fifth International Conference on Industrial Laser and Laser Applications '95, 1995, Shatura, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract

Results on investigation of thermal effects which appear during operation of an acousto-optic deflector are presented in the paper. Influence of the effects on characteristics of the scanning device is evaluated. For a case of the tellurium dioxide deflector, it is proved that the most principal thermal effect consists in an undesirable spatial shift of a scanning optical beam. The shift leads to the optical beam positioning error which in a typical deflector may be of dozens of resolvable spots. A method of the thermal shifts compensation based on acoustic frequency tuning is proposed. For various regimes of the deflector operation, laws of the frequency tuning are found thus providing the compensation of the shifts with the required precision.

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Vladimir I. Balakshy, Vitaly B. Voloshinov, Vladimir A. Karasev, Vladimir Ya. Molchanov, and Victor Semenkov "Compensation of thermal effects in acousto-optic deflector", Proc. SPIE 2713, Fifth International Conference on Industrial Lasers and Laser Applications '95, (1 March 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.234185

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