title: Slab-based Faraday isolators and Faraday mirrors for 10-kW average laser power.
abstract: It is shown that the use of slabs instead of rods makes it possible to fabricate Faraday isolators and Faraday mirrors operating at a multikilowatt power. Analytical dependences of thermally induced depolarization in Faraday devices on radiation power and on slab aspect ratio have been obtained.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Uljanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia. khazanov@appl.sci-nnov.ru
authors.forename: Efim A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Khazanov