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Chapter 1. Overview of Phase Conjugation (Jean-Pierre Huignard and Arnaud Brignon). |
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1.1 General Introduction. |
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1.2 Phase Conjugation Through Four-Wave Mixing. |
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1.3 The Nonlinear Materials. |
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1.4 The Criteria for the Choice of Materials. |
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Chapter 2. Principles of Phase Conjugating Brillouin Mirrors (Axel Heuer and Ralf Menzel). |
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2.2 Theoretical Description of the SBS Process. |
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2.3 Realization of SBS Mirrors. |
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Chapter 3. Laser Resonators with Brillouin Mirrors (Martin Ostermeyer and Ralf Menzel). |
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3.2 Survey of Different Resonator Concepts with Brillouin Mirrors (SBS-PCRs). |
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3.3 Stability and Transverse Modes of Phase Conjugating Laser Resonators with Brillouin Mirror. |
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3.4 Q-Switch via Stimulated Brillouin Scattering. |
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3.5 Resonance Effects by Interaction of Start Resonator Modes with the SBS Sound Wave. |
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3.6 Longitudinal Modes of the Linear SBS Laser. |
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3.7 High Brightness Operation of the Linear-SBS Laser. |
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Chapter 4. Multi-Kilohertz Pulsed Laser Systems with High Beam Quality by Phase Conjugation in Liquids and Fibers (Thomas Riesbeck, Enrico Risse, Oliver Mehl, and Hans J. Eichler). |
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4.3 Active Laser Media Nd:YAG and Nd:YALO. |
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4.4 Design Rules for MOPA Systems. |
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4.5 Beam Quality Measurement. |
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4.6 Characterization of Fiber Phase Conjugate Mirror. |
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4.7 Flashlamp-pumped Nd:YALO MOPA Systems with Fiber Phase Conjugator. |
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4.8 Actively Q-Switched Flashlamp-pumped Nd:YAG MOPA Systems with Fiber Phase Conjugator. |
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4.9 Continously Pumped Nd:YAG MOPA Systems with Fiber Phase Conjugator. |
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4.10 500-Watt Average Output Power MOPA System with CS2 as SBS Medium. |
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4.11 Conclusion and Outlook. |
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Chapter 5. High-Pulse-Energy Phase Conjugated Laser System (C. Brent Dane and Lloyd A. Hackel). |
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5.2 High-Energy SBS Phase Conjugation. |
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5.3 A 25-J, 15-ns Amplifier Using a Liquid SBS Cell. |
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5.4 A Long Pulse 500-ns, 30-J Laser System. |
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5.5 A 100-J Laser System Using Four Phase-Locked Amplifiers. |
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5.6 Summary and Conclusions. |
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Chapter 6. Advanced Stimulated Brillouin Scattering for Phase Conjugate Mirror Using LAP, DLAP Crystals and Silica Glass (Hidetsugu Yoshida and Masahiro Nakatsuka). |
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6.2 Crystal Structure of LAP and DLAP. |
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6.3 Basic Characteristics for Stimulated Brillouin Scattering. |
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6.4 Application of Solid-State SBS Mirrors to High-Power Lasers. |
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Chapter 7. Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Pulse Compression and Its Application in Lasers (G. A. Pasmanik, E. I. Shklovsky, and A. A. Shilov). |
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7.2 Phenomenological Description of Brillouin Compression. |
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7.3 Theoretical Analysis of Brillouin Pulse Compression. |
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7.4 Numerical Simulation. |
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7.5 Characterization of Materials Used for SBS Compressors. |
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7.6 Experimental Study of Brillouin Pulse Compression. |
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7.7 Application of SBS Pulse Compression to Diode-Pumped Solid-State Lasers with High Pulse Repetition Rate. |
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Chapter 8. Principles and Optimization of BaTiO3:Rh Phase Conjugators and their Application to MOPA Lasers at 1.06 mm (Nicolas Huot, Gilles Pauliat, Jean-Michel Jonathan, Ge´rald Roosen, Arnaud Brignon, and Jean-Pierre Huignard). |
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8.2 Overview of Material Properties. |
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8.3 Self-Pumped Phase Conjugation. |
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8.4 Dynamic Wavefront Correction of MOPA Laser Sources. |
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Chapter 9. Spatial and Spectral Control of High-Power Diode Lasers Using Phase Conjugate Mirrors (Paul M. Petersen, Martin Løbel, and Sussie Juul Jensen). |
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9.2 Laser Diode Arrays with Phase Conjugate Feedback. |
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9.3 Frequency-Selective Phase Conjugate Feedback with an Etalon in the External Cavity. |
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9.4 Tunable Output of High-Power Diode Lasers Using a Grating in the External Cavity. |
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9.5 Stability of the Output of Diode Lasers with External Phase Conjugate Feedback. |
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9.6 Frequency Doubling of High-Power Laser Diode Arrays. |
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9.7 Conclusions and Perspectives. |
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Chapter 10. Self-Pumped Phase Conjugation by Joint Stimulated Scatterings in Nematic Liquid Crystals and Its Application for Self-Starting Lasers (Oleg Antipov). |
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10.2 Self-Pumped Phase Conjugation by Joint Stimulated Scattering. |
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10.3 Self-Starting Lasers with a Nonlinear Mirror Based on Nematic Liquid Crystals. |
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Chapter 11. Self-Adaptive Loop Resonators with Gain Gratings (Michael J. Damzen). |
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11.2 Theory of Multiwave Mixing in Gain Media. |
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11.3 The Steady-State Regime. |
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11.4 The Transient Regime. |
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11.5 The General Time Regime. |
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11.6 Self-Pumped Phase Conjugation. |
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11.7 Double Phase Conjugation. |
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11.8 Self-Starting Adaptive Gain-Grating Lasers. |
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11.9 Self-Adaptive Loop Resonators Using a Thermal Grating Hologram. |
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11.10 Experimental Characterization of a Thermal Grating. |
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11.11 Experimental Operation of a Self-Adaptive Loop Resonator Using a Thermal Grating “Hologram”. |
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