The Effect of Roughness of Optical Elements on the Transverse Structure of a Light Field in a Nonlinear Talbot Cavity
- 1 October 1991
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Modern Optics
- Vol. 38 (10) , 1887-1890
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09500349114551991
Abstract
It is shown numerically that in a Talbot cavity being formed by a thin nonlinear amplifying layer and a pair of a flat imperfect mirrors, the small phase distortions place a fundamental limitation on the size of the aperture with inphase lasing. This effect results in a spreading of the far field distribution and it is not suppressed by plane-wave injection.Keywords
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