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Self-starting laser oscillator with a nonlinear nematic liquid-crystal mirror

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Abstract

A novel laser oscillator with a cavity completed by the refractive-index grating induced by generating beams in a nematic liquid-crystal cell is studied experimentally and theoretically. It is shown that both the thermal and orientational nonlinearity of the liquid crystal can provide the holographic mirror formation and the self-starting condition in the laser oscillator. The self-starting laser with a nonlinear mirror demonstrates a single-longitudinal-mode generation with good beam quality.

© 2001 Optical Society of America

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