Design and performance of a video-based laser beam automatic alignment system  

作　　者：刘代中 徐仁芳 范滇元 

机构地区：[1]Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai 201800

出　　处：《Chinese Optics Letters》2004年第2期92-94,共3页中国光学快报（英文版）

基　　金：This work was supported by the auspies of the National 863 Project(863-804-5).

摘　　要：A laser alignment system is applied to a high power laser facility for inertial confinement fusion. A design of the automated, close-loop laser beam alignment system is described. Its function is to sense beam alignment errors in a laser beam transport system and automatically steer mirrors preceding the sensor location as required to maintain beam alignment. The laser beam is sampled by a sensor package, which uses video cameras to sense pointing and centering errors. The camera outputs are fed to a personal computer, which includes video digitizers and uses image storage and software to sense the centroid of the image. Signals are sent through the computer to a stepper motor controller, which drives stepper motors on mirror mounts preceding the beam sampling location to return the beam alignment to the prescribed condition. Its optical principles and key techniques are given. The pointing and centering sensitivities of the beam alignment sensor package are analyzed. The system has been verified on theA laser alignment system is applied to a high power laser facility for inertial confinement fusion. A design of the automated, close-loop laser beam alignment system is described. Its function is to sense beam alignment errors in a laser beam transport system and automatically steer mirrors preceding the sensor location as required to maintain beam alignment. The laser beam is sampled by a sensor package, which uses video cameras to sense pointing and centering errors. The camera outputs are fed to a personal computer, which includes video digitizers and uses image storage and software to sense the centroid of the image. Signals are sent through the computer to a stepper motor controller, which drives stepper motors on mirror mounts preceding the beam sampling location to return the beam alignment to the prescribed condition. Its optical principles and key techniques are given. The pointing and centering sensitivities of the beam alignment sensor package are analyzed. The system has been verified on the multi-pass amplifier experimental system.

关 键 词：ALIGNMENT Digital image storage Inertial confinement fusion Video cameras 

分 类 号：O436[机械工程—光学工程]