Spatial and temporal filtering of a 10-W Nd:YAG laser with a Fabry-Perot ring-cavity premode cleaner

Willke, B. and Uehara, N. and Gustafson, E. K. and Byer, R. L. and King, P. J. and Seel, S. U. and Savage, R. L., Jr. (1998) Spatial and temporal filtering of a 10-W Nd:YAG laser with a Fabry-Perot ring-cavity premode cleaner. Optics Letters, 23 (21). pp. 1704-1706. ISSN 0146-9592 http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:WILol98

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Abstract

We report on the use of a fixed-spacer Fabry–Perot ring cavity to filter spatially and temporally a 10-W laser-diode-pumped Nd:YAG master-oscillator power amplifier. The spatial filtering leads to a 7.6-W TEMinfinity beam with 0.1% higher-order transverse mode content. The temporal filtering reduces the relative power fluctuations at 10 MHz to 2.8 x 10^-/sqrtHz, which is 1 dB above the shot-noise limit for 50 mA of detected photocurrent.

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Additional Information:	© 1998 Optical Society of America Received June 29, 1998 We thank David Shoemaker and Stan Whitcomb for proposing the use of a premode cleaner as a passive power noise filter and for suggesting this collaborative research. B. Willke thanks the German Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung for his Feodor-Lynen fellowship. This research is supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under cooperative agreement PHY-9210038 and NSF grant PHY-9630172.
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