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Influence of thermal deformations of the output windows of high-power laser systems on beam characteristics

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By using the well-known Green’s function methods, we study the three-dimensional temperature distributions and thermal deformations of the output windows of unstable optical resonators induced by an incident annular laser beam. Some expressions and theoretical profiles of the temperature distributions and thermal deformations as functions of the radius and of the thickness of optical windows are obtained. Moreover, the influence of the thermal deformations of sapphire, silica, and silicon windows within unstable optical resonators on the Strehl ratio and on the far-field laser intensity distribution is also discussed. Under conditions of 50-kW intense laser irradiation during 5 s, the maximum thermal deformation in sapphire, silica, and silicon substrates is 1.993, 0.393, and 6.251 μm, respectively. Under the same conditions the Strehl ratio of sapphire is higher than that of silica.

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