Beam quality improvement in thermally birefringent Nd:YAG laser amplifiers by use of radially polarized beams

OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series

Volumn 94, Issue , 2004, Pages 263-268

  Moshe, I ^a   Jacket, S ^a   Meir, A ^a  

^a SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; AMPLIFICATION; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

BEAM QUALITY; BIPOLAR FOCUSING; BIPOLAR LENSING; LASER RODS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 8744309906     PISSN: 10945695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2004.263     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. Q. Lü, H. Weber, Beam quality degradation of polarized, circularly symmetric beam caused by a birefringence Nd:YAG rod, Opt. Comm. 118 457-461 (1995).
2. I. Moshe, S. Jackel, and A. Meir, Production of radially or tangentially polarized beams in solid-state lasers and elimination of thermally induced birefringence effects, Opt. Lett. 28 807-809 (2003).