APPLIED LASER, Volume. 41, Issue 3, 657(2021)
Numerical Simulation of an Optical Resonator with a 90° Cone Reflector
An optical resonator with a 90° cone reflector has a better misalignment tolerance because of its special structure. In this paper, a high-power transverse flow CO2 laser is selected as a model for numerical simulation, and the Fox-Li iterative approach has been used to analyze the output beam mode of the laser resonator. Calculation process is simplified when the beam transformation occur at 90° cone reflector. Because a 90° cone reflector is a no-paraxial device, and linear polarization is not preserved by the reflection. A modified vector method is used to analyze mode distribution of the output beam, and the results show that when the reflectivity difference between P and S polarizations is more than 3%, the radially polarized or azimuthally polarized beam with a polarization purity of 1 can be obtained by such resonator.
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Wang Wei, Wan Wen, He Qiong, Yang Sheng, Shi Jinfa. Numerical Simulation of an Optical Resonator with a 90° Cone Reflector[J]. APPLIED LASER, 2021, 41(3): 657
Received: Sep. 16, 2020
Accepted: --
Published Online: Jan. 1, 2022
The Author Email: Wang Wei (wangwei050413@126.com)