Variable reflectivity mirror unstable resonator with deformable mirror thermal compensation

被引:3
作者
Pavel, N
Dascalu, T
Lupei, V
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[1] Institute of Atomic Physics, IFTAR-MALIRM Department, Bucharest RO-76900
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10.1016/0030-4018(95)00468-8
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
For thermal lensing compensation of a Nd:YAG rod, placed in different positive-branch unstable resonators with super-Gaussian reflectivity profile of the output mirror, a deformable thin glass plate was used as the rear mirror. Unstable resonators with magnifications of M=1.5 and M=1.8 were designed for 0.8 mm . mrad value of the beam quality. For unloaded resonators the output energies of a laser working at 10 Hz repetition rate and pump energies up to 50 J per pulse were close to those obtained for 1 Hz repetition rate.
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