title: Phase conjugating mirror combining a fused silica rod and a fiber.
abstract: A phase conjugating mirror combining a fused silica rod and an optical fiber is presented. This configuration combines a large diameter fused silica rod with a high laser damage threshold and an optical fiber with a low stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold. The composed SBS generator-amplifier construction, similar to the two-cell type makes a forced SBS process, in which the Stokes beam reflected by the fiber is injected into the fused silica rod. Using this combined phase conjugating mirror in a laser-diode-pumped laser master oscillator power amplifier system, we obtained 42% SBS reflectivity at most at 100 Hz repetition rate. At the same time, the inverse beam quality parameter M(2) is reduced from 3 to 1.6, while at 400 Hz repetition rate, M(2) is reduced from 4 to 1.7.
authors.affiliation: The State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Sha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Lixin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tong
authors.forename: Qingsong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Chong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Chun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tang