| Abstract: | We discuss a new method of compensation of thermally induced birefringence in cylindrical active elements of solid-body lasers;
the method is based on the simultaneous use of two active elements with sign-opposite temperature gradients in the transverse
direction. Basic features of the method are shown and schemes of its practical implementation are considered.
To whom correspondence should be addressed.
D. F. Ustinov Baltika State Technical University “VOENMEKH”, 1, 1st Krasnoarmeiskaya Str., St. Petersburg, 198005, Russia.
Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 66, No. 4, pp. 573–577, July–August, 1999. |
