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Cylindrical Polarization: the Path to High Power

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Clever device converts linearly polarized beam to cylindrical polarization.

Breck Hitz

Scientists at the Soreq Nuclear Research Center in Yavne, Israel, have previously demonstrated that cylindrically polarized light can be amplified in solid-state rod amplifiers with higher efficiency than can linearly polarized light. When linearly polarized light is amplified in a solid-state rod, as much as half of the amplified light is converted to the orthogonal polarization by the rod’s thermal birefringence. To obtain a linearly polarized output, this orthogonally polarized light must be filtered out and discarded. Cylindrically polarized light, on the other hand, can be amplified...Read full article

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    Published: August 2007
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