Software Development for Modeling High Power Solid State Slab Lasers

Abstract

We will extend this study to smaller grain sizes to determine if the trend observed continues or if the curve eventually turns down. During this period we identified an error in our earlier work on depolarization in crystalline lasers. This error, was caused by a problem in writing the reduced form of the 4th rank tensor that gives the piezo optic effect. It was essential to have found this error as we started evaluating depolarization losses in ceramic crystal lasers. These lasers are of general interest and are in use in the Textron Thin-Zag laser. We discuss the error, its correction and the evaluation of depolarization losses in ceramic crystals in this report. Since this report was first drafted we detected an error in our method of calculating the path of a ray through a random array of crystallities. This has been corrected and the results are being revised.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA464957

Entities

People

  • Michael Bass

Organizations

  • University of Central Florida

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contracts
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Crystals
  • Depolarization
  • Geometry
  • Grain Size
  • Identities
  • Lasers
  • Materials
  • Mathematics
  • Normal Distribution
  • Physical Properties
  • Refraction
  • Refractive Index
  • Single Crystals
  • Sizes (Dimensions)
  • Software Development

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Regression Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Pulsed-Laser Deposition