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Gaussian beam distortion caused by saturable gain or loss |
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| Authors: | Bridges W. |
| Affiliation: | Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, CA, USA; |
| Abstract: | Results are given for the beam distortion suffered by low order Gaussian-Laguerre modes propagating through a saturable laser amplifier. Both uniform and Bessel small-signal gain distributions are considered. Beam narrowing caused by saturable loss is also treated. |
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