학술논문

Demonstration of a Large-Aperture, Multi-kW Gas-Cooled Faraday Rotator
Document Type
Conference
Source
2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2023 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2023
Subject
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power lasers
Apertures
Gas lasers
Thermal stresses
Electo-optic effects
Language
Abstract
We demonstrate a large-aperture gas-cooled Faraday rotator designed to mitigate stress-induced depolarization in high-energy, high-power laser systems. Compensating for a surrogate depolarization plate at 3.3 kW, the rotator reduces the relative depolarized energy from 36% to 1%.