Beam-quality changes generated by thermally-induced sphericalaberration in laser cavities |
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| Authors: | Martinez-Herrero R. Mejias P.M. Hodgson N. Weber H. |
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| Affiliation: | Dept. de Opt., Univ. Complutense de Madrid; |
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| Abstract: | Thermally-induced spherical aberration in Nd:YAG rods is investigated. Attention is concentrated on the so-called “intensity moment formalism” to analyze the beam-quality parameter of the emitted laser beams. A number of resonance conditions that certain beam-shape parameters of any stable laser mode should fulfill are also derived, and a comparison with previously reported numerical results is presented |
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