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

作     者：刘代中 徐仁芳 范滇元 

作者机构：Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics Chinese Academy of Sciences National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics Shanghai 201800 

出 版 物：《Chinese Optics Letters》 (中国光学快报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2004年第2卷第2期

页      面：92-94页

核心收录：

学科分类：0808[工学-电气工程] 070207[理学-光学] 0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0803[工学-光学工程] 0702[理学-物理学] 

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

主　　题：Alignment Digital image storage Inertial confinement fusion Video cameras 

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 the