title: Theory of thermal blooming correction by phase conjugation.
abstract: We predict accurate correction of thermal blooming by phase conjugation, for the case of a nonunity-magnitude reflection coefficient, over a wide range of easily realized experimental conditions. Diffusion relaxes a thermal grating that would otherwise spoil phase-conjugate correction. Phase conjugation is predicted to correct thermal blooming caused by continuous-wave lasers, collimated or loosely focused lasers, pulsed lasers blooming in gases, and broadband lasers.
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Schelonka
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Kramer