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Effect of elastic anisotropy on thermally induced distortions of a laser beam in single cubic syngony crystals with radial cooling. Part II

A. G. Vyatkin

Federal Research Center The Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod

Abstract: We report a study of thermally induced depolarisation of a laser beam in single cubic syngony crystals of $432$, $\bar{4}3\mathrm{m}$, and $\mathrm{m3m}$ symmetry groups with an anisotropic elastic stiffness tensor. For active elements in the form of a long rod and a thin disk with radial cooling under uniform volume pumping, we investigate the effect of anisotropy of elastic properties on the dependence of the degree of depolarisation in the crystal on the orientation of the crystallographic axes, as well as on the position of the critical orientation in the crystallographic coordinate system.

Keywords: high average power lasers, photoelastic effect, thermally induced depolarisation, anisotropy of cubic crystals.

Received: 01.10.2020
Revised: 30.04.2021

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2021, 51:7, 565–573

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