Diffraction losses reduction in multiapertured non-Hermitian laser resonators

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 781-786

  Brunel, Marc ^a   Ropars, Guy ^a   Le Floch, Albert ^a   Bretenaker, Fabien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DIFFRACTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HELIUM NEON LASERS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTIMIZATION;

DIFFRACTION LOSSES; HANKEL TRANSFORMS; HUYGENS - FRESNEL PRINCIPLE; INTRACAVITY APERTURE; TRANSVERSE ELECTROMAGNETIC MODE;

LASER RESONATORS;

EID: 0030735235     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.55.781     Document Type: Article

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