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Effect of refractive index mismatch aberration in arsenic trisulfide

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We demonstrate compensation for the spherical aberration due to the refractive index mismatch that occurs when a laser beam is focused into a thick arsenic trisulfide (As\(_2\)S\(_3\)) film with a high numerical aperture objective. The effects of the aberration at different focal depths on the point spread function have been calculated numerically and the axial response method shown to be a useful measure for compensating the spherical aberration. We show that with the addition of adaptive optics based on a spatial light modulator, the aberration can be significantly reduced, resulting in an increase in peak intensity by a factor of 2.4 and a decrease in axial elongation by a factor of 2.2.

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This research was conducted by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (Project Number CE110001018).

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  1. Centre for Micro-Photonics, Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122, Australia

    Benjamin P. Cumming  & Min Gu

  2. Laser Physics Centre, Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

    Sukanta Debbarma  & Barry Luther-Davies

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Cumming , B.P., Debbarma , S., Luther-Davies , B. et al. Effect of refractive index mismatch aberration in arsenic trisulfide. Appl. Phys. B 109, 227–232 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-012-5180-9

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