Title :
Investigating on stress-induced birefringence in vacuum windows of plasma-electrode Pockels cell
Author :
Zhang, Jun ; Zhang, Xiongjun ; Wu, Dengsheng ; Tian, Xiaolin ; Li, Mingzhong ; Yu, Haiwu
Author_Institution :
Res. Center of Laser Fusion, Mianyang, China
Abstract :
An analytical model has been developed to predict the stress-induced birefringence for both circular and square windows. Our main result is that circular windows lead to minimum birefringence because of their symmetric geometry.
Keywords :
Pockels effect; fusion reactors; mechanical birefringence; plasma inertial confinement; inertial confinement fusion; plasma-electrode Pockels cell; stress-induced birefringence; vacuum windows; Apertures; Birefringence; Laser beams; Laser fusion; Laser modes; Optical amplifiers; Optical refraction; Plasmas; Pulse amplifiers; Windows; Contrast ratio; Plasma-electrode Pockels cell; Stress-induced birefringence; Vacuum windows;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3829-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3830-3
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292439
