Abstract
We discuss a new method of compensation of thermally induced birefringence in cylindrical active elements of solid-body lasers; the method is based on the simultaneous use of two active elements with sign-opposite temperature gradients in the transverse direction. Basic features of the method are shown and schemes of its practical implementation are considered.
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D. F. Ustinov Baltika State Technical University “VOENMEKH”, 1, 1st Krasnoarmeiskaya Str., St. Petersburg, 198005, Russia. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 66, No. 4, pp. 573–577, July–August, 1999.
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Vasil'ev, D.N., Lobachev, V.V. & Strakhov, S.Y. Compensating for birefringence in cylindrical active elements of solid-body lasers. J Appl Spectrosc 66, 646–650 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02675403
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02675403