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Lasers

Four-channel pulse-periodic Nd:YAG laser with diffraction-limited output radiation

N. F. Andreev, O. V. Palashov, G. A. Pasmanik, E. A. Khazanov

Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod

Abstract: A four-channel pulse-periodic (25 Hz) laser was investigated. Its main features were compensation of aberration and polarisation distortions in Nd:YAG crystals (15 mm in diameter) and summation of radiation from four-pass channels in a single diffraction-limited beam.

PACS: 42.55.Rz, 42.60.Jf

Received: 19.02.1997

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1997, 27:7, 565–569

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