Performance of a general asymmetric unstable Nd: glass ring laser
Abstract
Performance of a Nd:glass unstable ring laser is discussed in relation to the size of the mode suppressing aperture and the spacing between the focusing elements. It is shown that the discrimination ratio of the two counterpropagating beams can be considerably increased by using appropriate nonconfocal geometries.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- January 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.25.000097
- Bibcode:
- 1986ApOpt..25...97U
- Keywords:
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- Glass Lasers;
- Neodymium Lasers;
- Optical Resonators;
- Ring Lasers;
- Focusing;
- Laser Outputs;
- Lenses;
- Light Beams;
- Traveling Wave Amplifiers;
- Lasers and Masers;
- LASERS: RING;
- LASERS: NEODYMIUM;
- RESONATORS