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Dynamic optical path distortions in laser rods
1TRG Inc., a subsidiary of Control Data Corporation, Route 110, Melville, New York 11749, USA.
Applied Optics
|January 6, 2010
Abstract:
Measurements were made of the thermally induced distortions occurring in laser rods as a result of flash lamp heating. Time-resolved interferograms were obtained by placing the sample in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and utilizing a Q-switched laser as the interferometer-illumination source. It was observed that significant distortions occur during the pumping pulse leading to diverging-lens effects in the sample rods.

