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Yuhang He

at Huazhong Univ of Science and Technology

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Proceedings Article | 16 December 2022 Presentation + Paper

Intra-cavity mode control in a Nd:YAG laser by optimizing the single-mode power factor with a spatial light modulator

Cong Hu, Yu Xiao, Yuhang He, Xiahui Tang

Proceedings Volume 12312, 1231209 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2640923

KEYWORDS: Spatial light modulators, Transmission electron microscopy, Optimization (mathematics), Laser resonators, Mirrors, Near field, Nd:YAG lasers, Resonators, Algorithms, Beam shaping

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By utilizing customized intra-cavity optical elements including graded-phase mirrors, variable reflectivity mirrors, aspherical mirrors, diffractive optical elements and spatial light modulators, the mode discrimination of the cavity is enhanced and a pre-determined transverse mode, usually flat-top beams such as super-Gaussian beams or flattened- Gaussian beams, can be generated in the cavity. The design of such laser cavities oscillating in a predetermined transverse mode is commonly based on the concept of phase conjugation, whereby the desired phase profile of optical element is obtained by reversely propagating the predetermined transverse mode and creating a conjugate field to propagate back. However, this procedure is only accurate under the assumption that the mirror size is infinite and the propagation process is in a lossless manner. Moreover, the parameters of the pre-determined mode, such as beam size and amplitude distribution, must be carefully chosen or else non-negligible errors would occur due to finite-size apertures and associated truncation. Here, we report on a simple and effective approach for intra-cavity mode control based on optimizing the single-mode power factor, which represents the total power extracted by a single mode from the active medium. By optimizing the single-mode power factor of the desired mode, the cavity can be designed to operate in mono-mode, increasing the mode purity significantly. Our method is verified on a digital laser with a spatial light modulator as the rear mirror and the loaded phase profile is acquired by a simulated annealing algorithm. As a result, when the single-mode power factor of TEM00 mode is optimized, the resonator operates in a single fundamental mode. When the single-mode power factor of the vortex mode with a topological charge of 1 is optimized, the output mode purity is close to 100%.

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