Abstract
Control of the propagation properties of complex beams is desired for many applications. Here we present a novel method to generate propagation invariant shaped beams. Our method is based on a modified degenerate cavity (MDC) [1], [2], which has a huge number of degrees of freedom (300,000 modes in our system), that can be coupled and controlled. Specifically, the MDC allows direct access to both the x-space and k-space components of the laser beam. Accordingly, placing two amplitude masks, one in x-space and one in k-space, enables control of the output beam. Varying the geometric properties of the mask in x-space changes the shape of the output beam, and varying the geometric properties of the mask in k-space breaks the degeneracy between modes and forms spatial correlations (partial spatial coherence) in the output beam [1].
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