Abstract
A side-pumped laser cavity that incorporates a single custom-made diffractive element for thermal aberration correction was designed. A computer model of the cavity was used to predict the fundamental mode shape, cavity loss, higher-order mode discrimination, and tolerance to pump power operating point, corrector plate misalignment, and diffractive element fabrication errors. These predictions and the corresponding experimental measurements demonstrate that diffractive optics correction of aberration is a viable technique for high-power solid-state laser operation.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Number of pages | 1 |
| State | Published - Jan 1 1998 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO - San Francisco, CA, USA Duration: May 3 1998 → May 8 1998 |
Other
| Other | Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO |
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| City | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Period | 5/3/98 → 5/8/98 |