Abstract
How to reduce the thermally induced effects in a solid-state rod is a critical assignment for the applications of high-powered diode-pumped solid-state lasers (DPSSLs). In this paper, we study the birefringence compensation in a solid-state laser system containing two tandem-set Nd:YAG rods with different thermally induced characteristics. By reason of the uneven emission wavelengths of the pump LDs, the thermal focal length of one Nd:YAG rod is about 1.3 times as much as that of the other in our study. Using a 90° quartz rotator and a pair of coupling lenses, we investigated the depolarization dependence on different laser structures. It has been found that the birefringence in two laser rods with such different thermally induced features can be excellently reduced by adopting an optimized lens configuration which is not a traditional telescope image system as usually adopted by many researchers. Both the theoretical analyses and the experimental results have demonstrated the performance of our approach. The conclusions have been thought to be useful for constructing a high-average-power laser oscillator with a near- TEM00 mode.
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