Slab-based Faraday isolators and Faraday mirrors for 10-kW average laser power.
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.
Khazanov
Efim A
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Institute of Applied Physics, 46 Uljanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia. khazanov@appl.sci-nnov.ru