INVESTIGATION OF THE MISALIGNMENT SENSITIVITY OF A BIREFRINGENCE-COMPENSATED 2-ROD ND-YAG LASER SYSTEM

Authors
KUGLER N DONG SL LU QT WEBER H
Citation
N. Kugler et al., INVESTIGATION OF THE MISALIGNMENT SENSITIVITY OF A BIREFRINGENCE-COMPENSATED 2-ROD ND-YAG LASER SYSTEM, Applied optics, 36(36), 1997, pp. 9359-9366
Citations number
15
Journal title
Applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036935
Volume
36
Issue
36
Year of publication
1997
Pages
9359 - 9366
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(1997)36:36<9359:IOTMSO>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
A system for the compensation of thermally induced birefringence in la ser rods that consists of two identical Nd:YAG laser rods, a telescope to image the principal planes of the rods onto each other and a 90 de grees quartz rotator to change the state of polarization between the r ods has been set up, and its sensitivity to transversal and longitudin al misalignment has been investigated experimentally. A theoretical mo del to describe the increase of depolarization that is due to misalign ment has been developed and compared with the experimental results. (C ) 1997 Optical Society of America.