Polarisation dependence on aplanarity in the near-planar ring laser

Polarisation of the beam in a near-planar skew-rhombus ring laser is dependent on the aplanarity of the geometrical ray-path and the defects of its cavity mirrors. With reduction in the anisotropy of birefringence in state-of-the-art multilayer dielectric-stack cavity mirrors it is shown that the po...

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Main Author: Wells, Peter Vincent
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Physics 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5529