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Article Dans Une Revue Optics Express Année : 2007

Microchip-laser polarization control by destructive-interference resonant-grating mirror

Florent Pigeon
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Stéphanie Reynaud
Olivier Parriaux
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Svetlen Tonchev
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Nicolas Landru
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Résumé

An output coupler comprising a resonant grating submirror monolithically associated with a standard multilayer submirror polarizes the emission of a Nd:YAG microchip laser linearly over its full emission bandwidth by intra-mirror destructive interference for the undesired polarization. A polarization extinction ratio of more than 25 dB is obtained up to 6.1µJ pulse energy. This passively Q-switched laser performance is almost identical to that of a gratingless non-polarized microchip laser. The design and fabrication of the resonant grating mirror are described.

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hal-00134970 , version 1 (06-03-2007)

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Florent Pigeon, Jean-Claude Pommier, Stéphanie Reynaud, Olivier Parriaux, Marwan Abdou Ahmed, et al.. Microchip-laser polarization control by destructive-interference resonant-grating mirror. Optics Express, 2007, 15 (5), pp.2573-2584. ⟨10.1364/OE.15.002573⟩. ⟨hal-00134970⟩
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