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Control of laser radiation parameters

Description of propagation of a Gaussian beam with general astigmatism by the ray method and application of this method to calculation of the parameters of nonplanar ring cavities

I. V. Golovnin, A. I. Kovrigin, A. N. Konovalov, G. D. Laptev

International Laser Center of Moscow State University

Abstract: A method is proposed for the description of ring cavities with a nonplanar axial contour. This method makes it possible to find the stability regions and the characteristics of a Gaussian mode with general astigmatism, which is formed in such cavities. Numerical calculations are reported of the field characteristics and stability regions of a four-mirror ring cavity with a nonplanar axial contour.

PACS: 42.60.Da, 42.60.Jf, 42.15.Fr

Received: 29.07.1994

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1995, 25:5, 436–438

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