Title

Calculation Of Thermal-Gradient-Induced Stress Birefringence In Slab Lasers-I

Abstract

A thorough analysis of the losses due to thermal-gradient-induced stresses in slab lasers is presented in which depolarization losses due to thermal-gradient-induced stresses are calculated properly by treating the changes in the dielectric impermeability tensor. In previous analyses of this problem, the approach in which the index of refraction is treated as a tensor quantity is only applicable in the limit of very small changes. Issues of how to correctly write the reduced-suffix forms of the tensors are also considered. Our formalism is then applied to an edge-pumped Yb:YAG slab laser. We consider straight-through propagation as an example of the formalism and indicate its application to the case of zigzag propagation. © 2004 IEEE.

Publication Date

7-1-2004

Publication Title

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volume

40

Issue

7

Number of Pages

909-916

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2004.830188

Socpus ID

3142679489 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/3142679489

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