Abstract
One chief limitation on the flexibility of high average power lasers has been a lack of electrooptic switches capable of handling high average power optical loads. Commercially available Pockels cells are generally limited to an optical throughput of 10-50 W due to bulk absorption in the electrooptic medium. We developed an electrooptic switch which is capable of handling several kilowatts of optical throughput. This was achieved by developing a switch architecture which minimizes the effects of bulk absorption.
© 1989 Optical Society of America
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