Abstract
Applicability of the acoustooptic method for raising the time-averaged thermal efficiency of laser radiation is substantiated theoretically and confirmed experimentally. The effect produced by laser radiation on materials being processed (laser cutting, welding, engraving, etc.) has a threshold in light intensity. Importantly, a beam with the most frequently used normal (Gaussian) angular distribution of intensity is not optimal from the technological viewpoint. A method proposed for its optimization is based on acoustooptic refraction, i.e., fast nonlinear scanning of the initial beam around its central position, which improves (at certain values of the parameters) the time-averaged angular distribution of the beam intensity. In the experiment, the thermal efficiency of laser radiation is raised by several times.
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