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Use of circularly polarized optical beams to suppress selffocusing instability in a nonlinear cubic medium with repeaters

S. N. Vlasov, V. I. Kryzhanovskiĭ, V. E. Yashin


Abstract: A theoretical and experimental investigation is made of the suppression of small-scale self-focusing in highpower solid-state laser systems with repeaters by using circular polarization. The improvement in the output focused energy obtained experimentally for circular polarization as compared to that for linear polarization (~1.5 times higher) shows good agreement with the calculated value.

UDC: 621.371.24

PACS: 42.65.Jx, 42.55.Rz

Received: 18.02.1981

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1982, 12:1, 7–10

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