Title :
Brillouin-enhanced four-wave mixing phase conjugator with correction for material, thermal, and birefringence aberrations and passive output control
Author :
Bowers, M.W. ; Hankle, A.K. ; Boyd, Robert W.
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., CA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. In our arrangement both the seed beam and signal beam are generated by the same Nd:YAG laser oscillator. The seed beam is circularly polarized and contains 100 mJ of energy in 10 ns. The signal beam is split using either a polarized pair or a beam splitter. The two beams each pass through laser amplifiers and are split again into two orthogonal polarizations. All five beams, the seed and four signal beams, are focused into a cell containing a Brillouin medium.
Keywords :
aberrations; birefringence; laser beams; light polarisation; multiwave mixing; neodymium; optical phase conjugation; reflectivity; solid lasers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; 10 ns; 100 mJ; Brillouin medium; Brillouin-enhanced four-wave mixing phase conjugator; Nd:YAG laser oscillator; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; aberrations corrections; birefringence aberrations; circularly polarized; laser amplifiers; laser beam focusing; optical phase conjugation; orthogonal polarizations; passive output control; polarized pair; seed beam; signal beam splitting; thermal aberrations; Brillouin scattering; Electrons; Laser beams; Laser modes; Lenses; Mirrors; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Reflectivity; Spontaneous emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-443-2
