Design of optical system for flattop beam shaper based on the measurement of laser induced damage threshold of thin films

To solve the problem of large error when measure the laser induced damage threshold of thin films in the case of Gaussian distribution beam induced damage thin films, optical system of flattop beam shaper which is capable of redistributing a beam with a Gaussian profile to a flattop profile was designed with optical design software ZEMAX. The Fermi-Dirac beam model was chosen as the distribution function of the flattop beam in this paper, the mapping formula of the input Gaussian beam and the output flattop beam was establish, the surface coefficient of aspheric was given. The energy conversion efficiency was 95.33% and the flattened degree was 93.66% in this design. The accuracy of measurement has been improved when measure the laser induced damage threshold of thin films by the flattop beam.