title: Compensation of birefringence in active elements with a novel Faraday mirror operating at high average power.
abstract: A decrease in the depolarization ratio by more than one order of magnitude by use of a recently proposed Faraday mirror (FM) in comparison with the traditional FM has been demonstrated experimentally. At a high average laser power, the possibility of an increase in the accuracy of compensation of depolarization in the active element by means of a lambda/4 plate with both the traditional and the novel FM is shown.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Physics, North Novgorod, Russia. khazanov@appl.sci-nnov.ru
authors.forename: Efim
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Khazanov
authors.forename: Alexey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Anastasiyev
authors.forename: Nikolay
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Andreev
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Voytovich
authors.forename: Oleg
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Palashov