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Telecommunications and Radio Engineering

ISSN for PRINT: 0040-2508

Institutional price:	$4518.00
Issues per year:	20

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2001, Volume55

101 pages

Issue price - $197.00

Effect of the Bolometer Diameter on the Measured Profile Distribution of Focused Laser Radiation

V. M. Kuzmichov
V. Karazin National University of Kharkov, 4, Svoboda Sq., Kharkov, 61077, Ukraine

S. V. Pogorelov
V. Karazin National University of Kharkov, 4, Svoboda Sq. 61077; and National University of Pharmacy, 35, Pushkinskaja St., Kharkov, 61002, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

It has been shown that if the bolometer diameter is equal to the recorded RMS radius of the optical beam, then the systematic error in the measured RMS radius of the profile in density distribution does not exceed +5%, dropping off quite as the diameter decreases.