Design of aberrationless aspheric unstable resonators
- 1 December 1992
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America A
- Vol. 9 (12) , 2176-2181
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josaa.9.002176
Abstract
We present a method for designing aspheric mirrors for unstable-resonator lasers to yield an arbitrary laser mode inside the resonator. Both analytical and numerical examples are given of aberration-compensated resonators, including solid resonators whose modes, on refraction through the output coupler, have identically zero spherical aberration.Keywords
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