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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Passive alignment stability and auto-alignment of multipass amplifiers based on Fourier transforms.

Laura SinkunaiteKlaus KirchManuel ZeyenAndreas KnechtAldo AntogniniJonas NuberMiroslaw MarszalekKarsten SchuhmannFrançois NezRandolf PohlIvo Schulthess

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Materials scienceApertureFOS: Physical sciences7. Clean energy01 natural sciencesStability (probability)law.invention010309 opticssymbols.namesakeOpticslaw0103 physical sciencesSensitivity (control systems)Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering (miscellaneous)[PHYS]Physics [physics][PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics]business.industryAmplifierAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsLens (optics)Tilt (optics)Fourier transformsymbolsbusinessBeam (structure)Optics (physics.optics)Physics - Optics

description

The stability properties of Fourier-based multipass amplifier to misalignments (tilts) of its optical components has been investigated. For this purpose, a method to quantify the sensitivity to tilts based on the amplifier small signal gain has been elaborated and compared with measurements. To improve on the tilt stability by more than an order of magnitude a simple auto-alignment system has been proposed and tested. This study, combined with other investigations devoted to the stability of the output beam to variations of aperture and thermal lens effects of the active medium, qualifies the Fourier-based amplifier for the high-energy and the high-power sector.

10.1364/ao.58.002904https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31044897