Use of circularly polarized optical beams to suppress self-focusing instability in a nonlinear cubic medium with repeaters

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© 1982 American Institute of Physics
, , Citation S N Vlasov et al 1982 Sov. J. Quantum Electron. 12 7 DOI 10.1070/QE1982v012n01ABEH005253

0049-1748/12/1/7

Abstract

A theoretical and experimental investigation is made of the suppression of small-scale self-focusing in high-power solid-state laser systems with repeaters by using circular polarization. The improvement in the output focused energy obtained experimentally for circular polarization as compared to that for linear polarization

(∼ 1.5 times

higher) shows good agreement with the calculated value.

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10.1070/QE1982v012n01ABEH005253