Abstract In this paper a new concept of ‘optical ballast' is put forward. Optical ballast is a kind of device that can be used to decrease the variation and fluctuation of the propagation characteristics of light beams caused by the disturbance of refractive index of the medium. To illustrate the idea clearly and concretely, a fully adaptive dynamic stable solid-state laser resonator is presented as application example of optical ballast.
Received: 17 January 2004
Revised: 16 February 2004
Accepted manuscript online:
PACS:
42.55.Rz
(Doped-insulator lasers and other solid state lasers)
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