Abstract
The use of thermal gratings for conjugation offers several important advantages, among these its low threshold, tolerance for high average power, and ability to operate with a relatively short coherence length. This paper describes conjugation of highly aberrated 1-ms pulses using a loop scheme incorporating a Nd:YAG amplifier. We call this scheme a thermal nonlinearity loop (TNL).
© 1996 Optical Society of America
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