Abstract

The directional behavior of power losses in aberrated multiaperture optical resonators with one or two phase-conjugate mirrors is investigated through integral equations and the reciprocity theorem. In a resonator with one phasecohjugate mirror, the losses of the mode traveling from the conventional mirror to the phase-conjugate mirror are shown to be larger than the losses of the counterpropagating mode. In a resonator with two phase-conjugate mirrors, the losses along each direction are found to be equal.

© 1983 Optical Society of America

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M. Piché, P. A. Bélanger, C. Paré

Laboratoire de Recherches en Optique et Laser (LROL), Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec G1K 7P4, Canada

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