• DocumentCode
    133298
  • Title

    Simulation of polarization effects in solid state lasers and amplifiers

  • Author

    Pflaum, Christoph ; Hartmann, Rainer ; Graupeter, Thomas

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. 10, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nurnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    1-4 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    125
  • Lastpage
    126
  • Abstract
    Polarization effects in laser crystals like Nd:YAG have a strong influence on output power and beam quality of laser resonators and laser amplifiers. Simulation techniques to analyze these effects are presented.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; laser cavity resonators; light polarisation; neodymium; solid lasers; YAG:Nd; beam quality; laser amplifiers; laser crystals; laser resonators; output power; polarization effects; solid state lasers; Crystals; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Optical resonators; Power lasers; Pump lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2014 14th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Palma de Mallorca
  • ISSN
    2158-3234
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-3681-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NUSOD.2014.6935388
  • Filename
    6935388