Effects of unstable resonator misalignment in the cusping domain
Abstract
Computational investigations were made of the power loss (output coupling) of misaligned strip unstable resonators as a function of the equivalent Fresnel number for several values of the misalignment parameter in a domain where cusping occurs. The behavior of power loss was found to agree with predictions based on consideration of a separate value of equivalent Fresnel number associated with each side of the resonator axis. Effects of even small misalignments can be quite pronounced.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- January 1984
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1984ApOpt..23..358P
- Keywords:
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- Energy Dissipation;
- Fresnel Diffraction;
- Laser Cavities;
- Laser Stability;
- Misalignment;
- Optical Resonators;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Field Mode Theory;
- Frequency Stability;
- Modal Response;
- Power Efficiency;
- Lasers and Masers;
- RESONATORS