Improvement of Double-pass Crossed-polarized Wave Efficiency and Beam Quality via Imaging

Authors :: Amanda Meier
Marin Iliev
Charles G. Durfee
Source :: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2012.
Publication Year :: 2012
Publisher :: OSA, 2012.
Abstract: The efficiency and beam quality of double-pass cross-polarized wave generation is improved by using imaging to better match the two fields for the second pass. The efficiency increase is especially pronounced for low input energy.

Subjects :: Optical amplifier
Amplified spontaneous emission
Optics
Materials science
Spatial filter
business.industry
Fiber optic splitter
Optoelectronics
Polarization-maintaining optical fiber
Laser beam quality
business
Graded-index fiber
Waveguide (optics)

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