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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry
Published on: August 12, 2013
Preferential operation of an end-pumped Nd:YAG laser in high-order Laguerre-Gauss modes
C J Flood1, G Giuliani, H M van Driel
1Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada.
Optics Letters
|September 18, 2009
Abstract:
A small Nd:YAG laser with plano-concave resonator end pumped by a dye laser is observed to possess single Laguerre-Gauss transverse modes as the lowest-loss modes. This anomalous behavior occurs when the transverse dimension of the gain spot is much smaller than the fundamental TEM(00)-mode spot size of the resonator; the Laguerre-Gauss transverse-mode order varies with resonator length.
