• DocumentCode
    1976664
  • 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
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    30-3 Aug. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292439
  • Filename
    5292439