Selective Transverse Modes in a Diode End- Pumped Nd:Yag Pulsed Laser

The output beam quality of multi transverse modes of laser, are relatively poor. In order to obtain better beam quality, one may use an aperture inside the laser resonator. In this case, various transverse modes can be selected. We have selected various transverse modes both by simulation and doing experiment. By inserting a circular aperture inside the diode end-pumped Nd:YAG pulsed laser resonator, we have obtained 00 TEM , 01 TEM , 20 TEM and have studied which parameters, can change the mode shape. Then, we have determined the beam quality factor of TEM00 gaussian mode.

Authors:

• M. Mohamadi
• M. Mostamand
• M. Moosavi
• M. Soltanolkotabi

Keywords:

• Beam shape
• Transverse mode
• Beam quality factor

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