Effect of thermally induced birefringence on high power picosecond azimuthal polarization Nd:YAG laser system

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/28/2/024205

Abstract Pulse-burst 1064-nm picosecond azimuthal polarization beam amplification up to an average power of 16.32 W using side-pumped Nd: YAG amplifiers has been demonstrated. The maximum envelop energy as much as 16.32 mJ, corresponding to a power amplification factor of 299.5%. A simple criterion was defined to help estimate the amount of depolarization in Nd:YAG amplifier stages. The degree of depolarization of the beam was 7.1% and the beam quality was measured to be M² = 3.69. The reason for the azimuthal polarization depolarization and beam quality degradation were explained theoretically and experimentally during the amplification process.

Keywords: azimuthal polarization thermally induced birefringence Nd:YAG amplifiers picosecond laser

Received: 13 November 2018
Revised: 04 December 2018
Published: 05 February 2019

PACS:	42.25.Lc	(Birefringence)
	42.60.Da	(Resonators, cavities, amplifiers, arrays, and rings)
	42.65.Re	(Ultrafast processes; optical pulse generation and pulse compression)
	29.25.Lg	(Ion sources: polarized)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U1631240), the Education Commission Program of Beijing, and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. KZ201510005001).

Corresponding Authors: Meng Chen
E-mail: chenmeng@bjut.edu.cn

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Hongpan Peng(彭红攀), Ce Yang(杨策), Shang Lu(卢尚), Ning Ma(马宁), Meng Chen(陈檬) Effect of thermally induced birefringence on high power picosecond azimuthal polarization Nd:YAG laser system 2019 Chin. Phys. B 28 024205

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