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JOURNAL OF OPTICS
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/17/1/015604
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laser beam shaping; resonator design; spatial light modulator
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In this paper we outline the steps necessary to create a laser with an intra-cavity spatial light modulator (SLM) for transverse mode control. We employ a commercial SLM as the back reflector in an otherwise conventional diode-pumped solid state laser. We show that the geometry of the liquid crystal (LC) arrangement strongly influences the operating regime of the laser, from nominally amplitude-only mode control for twisted nematic LCs to nominally phase-only mode control for parallel-aligned LCs. We demonstrate both operating regimes experimentally and discuss the potential advantages of and improvements to this new technology.
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