Active mirrors for intra-cavity compensation of the aspherical thermal lens in thin-disk lasers

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8236, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Piehler, Stefan ^a   Weichelt, Birgit ^a   Voss, Andreas ^a   Abdou Ahmed, Marwan ^a   Graf, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

intra cavity deformable mirrors; thermal lens compensation; Thin disk laser; wavefront distortions

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MIRRORS; ASPHERICAL; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; DEFORMABLE SURFACES; DIFFRACTION LOSS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; HIGH OUTPUT; INTRACAVITIES; LASER CRYSTALS; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; POWER LEVELS; SURFACE DEFORMATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL LENS; THERMAL LENSING; THERMALLY INDUCED; THIN-DISK LASERS; WAVEFRONT DEFORMATION; WAVEFRONT DISTORTIONS;

DEFORMATION; LASER RESONATORS; RESONATORS; WAVEFRONTS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 84857670998     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.905876     Document Type: Conference Paper

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