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

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

449

Lastpage

450

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

Filename

864910