Title :
Aberration correction of ms pulses at 1.06 /spl mu/m using a loop conjugator with thermal gratings
Author :
Matthews, S.C. ; Betin, A.A. ; Mangir, M.S.
Author_Institution :
Opt. Phys. Lab., Hughes Res. Labs., Malibu, CA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. The use of thermal gratings for conjugation offers several important advantages, among these its low threshold, tolerance for high average power, and ability to operate with a relatively short coherence length. This paper describes conjugation of highly aberrated 1-ms pulses using a loop scheme incorporating a Nd:YAG amplifier. We call this scheme a thermal nonlinearity loop (TNL).
Keywords :
aberrations; diffraction gratings; optical phase conjugation; thermo-optical effects; 1 ms; 1.06 micron; Nd:YAG amplifier; loop conjugator; pulse aberration correction; thermal grating; thermal nonlinearity loop; Add-drop multiplexers; Gratings; Laser beams; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Power measurement; Pulse amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
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
