ND-YAG MASTER-OSCILLATOR POWER-AMPLIFIER WITH A RHODIUM-DOPED BATIO3 SELF-PUMPED PHASE-CONJUGATE MIRROR

Authors
BRIGNON A HUIGNARD JP GARRETT MH MNUSHKINA I
Citation
A. Brignon et al., ND-YAG MASTER-OSCILLATOR POWER-AMPLIFIER WITH A RHODIUM-DOPED BATIO3 SELF-PUMPED PHASE-CONJUGATE MIRROR, Optics letters, 22(7), 1997, pp. 442-444
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
22
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
442 - 444
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1997)22:7<442:NMPWAR>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
We investigate Nd:YAG master-oscillator power amplifier arrangements w ith an infrared-sensitive rhodium-doped BaTiO3 photorefractive phase-c onjugate mirror. In these setups the phase-conjugate mirror is simple to implement, compact, passive, and completely self-contained. We demo nstrate a reasonable extraction efficiency (similar to 50%), response times in the range of several minutes with our experimental conditions and an excellent ability of the phase-conjugate mirror to compensate for severe phase aberrations. (C) 1997 Optical Society of America.