Abstract
We report the results of a theoretical and experimental investigation of two important properties of Raman converters. The first property is Raman beam cleanup, which refers to the generation of high-quality Stokes beams in a Raman amplifier pumped by laser beams of poor spatial quality. The second is nearly distortion-free amplification of aberrated Stokes beams in a Raman amplifier pumped by good-quality laser beams. A parallel beam geometry was used with collinear pump and Stokes beams. In both cases, excellent energy-conversion efficiencies into the first Stokes order, of the order of 60%, were demonstrated at high amplifier gains of 100 to 1000. The spatial characteristics of the amplified beams were found to be in good agreement with model predictions.
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