Birefringent beam splitter for intracavity mode selection in high-power multimirror lasers
Abstract
A broadband sapphire beam splitter is designed for interferometric resonators providing enough reflectance without using any coatings. The design consists of a parallel plate inclined near the Brewster angle, using a s-polarized reflection at one of the surfaces for interferometer coupling. Application to the design of Michelson and Fox-Smith resonators for phase-locked, RF linac free-electron lasers is discussed.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- October 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.33.006953
- Bibcode:
- 1994ApOpt..33.6953S
- Keywords:
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- Beam Splitters;
- Birefringence;
- Free Electron Lasers;
- High Power Lasers;
- Linear Accelerators;
- Michelson Interferometers;
- Optical Resonators;
- Phase Locked Systems;
- Radio Frequencies;
- Spectral Reflectance;
- Brewster Angle;
- Broadband;
- Laser Interferometry;
- Parallel Plates;
- Polarized Light;
- Sapphire;
- Lasers and Masers;
- BIREFRINGENCE;
- LASER DAMAGE;
- RESONATORS;
- LASERS: TUNABLE;
- BEAM SPLITTERS;
- MODES;
- PHASE LOCKING