High average power solid-state lasers with the self-adaptive cavity based on a nonlinear mirror

Authors
Antipov, OL Kuzhelev, AS Chausov, DV Zinoviev, AP Vorob'ev, VA
Citation
Ol. Antipov et al., High average power solid-state lasers with the self-adaptive cavity based on a nonlinear mirror, P SPIE, 4338, 2000, pp. 162-170
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Current Book Contents
Journal title
WAVE PROPAGATION IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND ADAPTIVE OPTICS → ACNP
ISSN journal
0277786X
Volume
4338
Year of publication
2000
Pages
162 - 170
Database
ISI
SICI code
0277-786X(2000)4338:<162:HAPSLW>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
A high average power laser oscillator with a cavity completed by a nonlinea r mirror formed by refractive index gratings which accompany population gra tings induced in Nd:YAG laser crystals by generating beams themselves is in vestigated experimentally. The spatio-temporal self-adaptation of the cavit y formed by nonlinear dynamic mirrors is studied. The generation of beams w ith average power up to 250W, near-diffraction-limited divergence and long coherence length is demonstrated.