Compensation of thermally induced birefringence in active medium made of polycrystalline ceramics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4968, Issue , 2003, Pages 151-162

  Kagan, Mikhail A ^a   Khazanov, Efim A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ceramic laser; Methods of birefringence compensation; Quaternion formalism; Thermally induced depolarization

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CERAMIC MATERIALS; LASER BEAMS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CERAMIC LASERS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0141828446     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478318     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (18)

1. Taira T., Ikesue A., Yoshida K., "Diode-pumped Nd:YAG ceramics lasers", In: OSA TOPS on Advanced Solid-State Lasers 19, pp. 430-432, 1998.
2. Shoji I., Sato Y., Kurimura S., Lupei V., Traira T., Ikesue A., Yoshida K., "Thermal - birefringence - induced depolarization in Nd: YAG ceramics", Optics Letters 27, pp. 234-236, 2002.
3. 12 ceramics", Applied Physics Letters 77, pp. 939-941, 2000.
4. 12 ceramic laser", Applied Physics Letters 78, pp. 3586-3588, 2001.
5. Lu J., Prabhu M., Song J., Li C., Xu J., Ueda K., Kaminskii A. A., Yagi H., Yanagitani T., "Optical properties and highly efficient laser oscillation of Nd:YAG ceramic", Applied Physics B 71, pp. 469-473, 2000.
6. Khazanov E. A., "Thermally induced birefringence in Nd:YAG ceramics", Optics Letters 27, pp. 716-718, 2002.
7. 3 ceramic laser", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics part 2-letters 40, pp. L1277-L1279, 2001.
8. Ainola L., Aben H., "Transformation equations in polarization optics of inhomogeneous birefrigent media", JOSA A 18, pp. 2164-2170, 2001.
9. Scott W. C. de Wit M., "Birefringence Compensation and Tem00 Mode Enhancement in a Nd:YAG Laser", Applied Physics Letters 18, pp. 3-4, 1971.
10. Gelikonov V. M., Gusovskii D. D., Leonov V. I. and Novikov M. A., "Birefringence compensation in single-mode optical fibers", Sov. Tech. Phys. Lett 13, pp. 322-323, 1987.
11. Khazanov E., Poteomkin A., Katin E., "Compensating for birefringence in active elements of solid-state lasers: novel method", JOSA B 19, pp. 667-671, 2002.
12. Clarkson W. A., Felgate N. S., Hanna D. C., "Simple method for reducing the depolarization loss resulting from thermally induced birefringence in solid-state lasers", Optics Letters 24, pp. 820-822, 1999.
13. Khazanov E., Andreev N., Palashov O., Poteomkin A., Sergeev O., Mehl O., Reitze D., "Effect of terbium gallium garnet crystal orientation on the isolation ratio of a Faraday isolator at high average power", Applied Optics 41, pp. 483-493, 2002.
14. Landau L.D. and Lifshitz E.M., Mechanics, pp. 140-141, Nauka, Moscow, 1973.
15. Malykin G.B., Pozdnyakova V.I., Shereshevskii I.A., "The asymtotics of the polarization degree of non-monochromatic radiation traveling in a fibre lightguides with random inhomogeneities", Jorn. of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics 3, pp. S93-S95, 2001.
16. Rytov S.M., Kravtsov Yu. A., Tatarskiy V. I., Introduction to Statistical Radiophysics part II, Nauka, Moscow, 1978.
17. Takaichi K., Lu J. R., Murai T., Uematsu T., Shirakawa A., Ueda K., Yagi H., Yanagitani T., Kaminskii A. A., "Chromium doped Y3A15O12 ceramics - a novel saturable absorber for passively self-Q-switched one -micron solid state lasers", Japanese Journal of Applied physics part 2-Letters 41, pp. L96-L98, 2002.
18. Ikesue A. (Japan Fine Ceramics Center), Private communication, 2002.