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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1994),
  • paper CTuK31

High average power pulsed phase conjugate laser with birefringence correction

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Abstract

Nd:YAG rod lasers have been plagued with the inability to go to high average powers because of thermally induced birefringence. We have developed a scalable Nd:YAG master oscillator/power amplifier (MOPA) laser system which employs a novel phase conjugation scheme to correct both for the material and thermal distortions as well as the thermal birefringence in a double pass amplifier. This scheme reduces the double pass depolarization from 42% to less than 7% and is easy to align.

© 1994 Optical Society of America

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