Title :
High-intensity bessel-gauss beam enhancement cavities
Author :
Putnam, William P. ; Abram, Gilberto ; Falcão-Filho, Edilson L. ; Birge, Jonathan R. ; Kärtner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
An enhancement cavity design with significant intensity gain from the mirror surfaces to the focus and larger than millimeter sized apertures in the cavity mirrors is presented. A continuous-wave version of the cavity is demonstrated.
Keywords :
laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; Bessel-Gauss beams; cavity mirrors; enhancement cavity design; intensity gain; mirror surfaces; Apertures; Chromium; Laser theory; Mirrors; Optical pulse generation; Optical resonators; Optical surface waves; Particle beam optics; Reflectivity; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
