Self-adaptive tunable visible solid-state dye laser

Abstract

In this paper, a self-adaptive holographic solid-state dye laser, which adaptively corrects for thermally induced aberrations, is described. The laser is seeded with a probe beam which self-intersects in the solid-state dye to write a gain grating hologram. Aberrations experience by the probe beam is encoded into the gain hologram. When lasing threshold is attained, a backward mode occurs that is the spatial phase conjugate of the (forward) probe beam, with correction of loop aberrations.