Advantages of negative-branch compared with positive-branch one-dimensional unstable resonators

Authors
Yasui, K Takenaka, Y
Citation
K. Yasui et Y. Takenaka, Advantages of negative-branch compared with positive-branch one-dimensional unstable resonators, APPL OPTICS, 40(21), 2001, pp. 3547-3551
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
APPLIED OPTICS
ISSN journal
00036935 → ACNP
Volume
40
Issue
21
Year of publication
2001
Pages
3547 - 3551
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(20010720)40:21<3547:AONCWP>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
Effects of small misalignments in positive- and negative-branch strip confo cal unstable resonators have been compared at the same absolute values of c ollimated Fresnel numbers and at the same Fresnel numbers. We show that pos itions of beam modes in negative-branch unstable resonators are far less se nsitive to misalignment because of both geometric features and diffraction effects of beam flipping in the resonators. (C) 2001 Optical Society of Ame rica.