Abstract
Frame-camera interferogram data for a neodymium-doped glass rod taken during the laser pumping process have been analyzed in terms of changes in optical path length due to: (1) explicit temperature-induced changes in length and index of refraction, and (2) temperature-induced stress birefringence. Criteria for compatibility of the interferogram data, the formalism, and independently determined values for the phenomenological constants involved are set up and met, after which the temperature over the rod cross section obtains. The minimum in the temperature distribution found accounts for the observed split fringes, and our qualified estimate of the temperature rise at the center of the rod is ∼16°C. Estimates of the changes in optical path length due to the various effects are made, and values for the temperature coefficients of expansion and refractive index of 0.97×10−5/°C±6% and −7.2×10−7/°C±60%, respectively, are submitted.
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