Investigation of the misalignment of a resonator with a telescopic angular selector in a photodissociation laser

O. B. Danilov, N. A. Novoselov, V. V. Spiridonov


Abstract: An experimental investigation was made of the characteristic features of the emission of a photodissociation laser with a resonator containing a telescopic angular selector. A method for aligning this resonator was developed and a study was made of the influence of misalignment of each of the resonator elements. The energy losses were found to correspond to the losses in the equivalent plane-parallel resonator. The advantages of the resonator employed was the maintenance of the angular width and direction of the maximum in the spatial distribution when a wedge deformation appeared in the resonator. The axial brightness was considerably higher than in the equivalent misaligned plane-parallel resonator without a selector.

UDC: 621.378.33

PACS: 42.60.Lh

Received: 14.04.1975

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1976, 6:1, 109–112