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Nanoscale roughness micromilled silica evanescent refractometer

Nanoscale roughness micromilled silica evanescent refractometer
Nanoscale roughness micromilled silica evanescent refractometer
In this Letter, we report a novel approach for directly exciting the lowest-order Laguerre-Gaussian (LG01) donut mode with controllable handedness of the helical phase front trajectory in an end-pumped solid-state laser. Our approach is based on the use of a novel mode selection element consisting of two nanoscale thickness aluminum stripes to provide discrimination between LG01 modes with opposite handedness. This scheme has been applied to a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser to generate and switch between LG01 modes with opposite handedness at output powers ~1 W at 1064 nm.
1094-4087
1005-1014
Carpenter, Lewis
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Cooper, Peter
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Holmes, Christopher
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Gawith, Corin B.E.
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Gates, James C.
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Smith, Peter G.R.
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Carpenter, Lewis
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Cooper, Peter
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Holmes, Christopher
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Gawith, Corin B.E.
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Gates, James C.
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Smith, Peter G.R.
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Carpenter, Lewis, Cooper, Peter, Holmes, Christopher, Gawith, Corin B.E., Gates, James C. and Smith, Peter G.R. (2015) Nanoscale roughness micromilled silica evanescent refractometer. Optics Express, 23 (2), 1005-1014. (doi:10.1364/OE.23.001005).

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Abstract

In this Letter, we report a novel approach for directly exciting the lowest-order Laguerre-Gaussian (LG01) donut mode with controllable handedness of the helical phase front trajectory in an end-pumped solid-state laser. Our approach is based on the use of a novel mode selection element consisting of two nanoscale thickness aluminum stripes to provide discrimination between LG01 modes with opposite handedness. This scheme has been applied to a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser to generate and switch between LG01 modes with opposite handedness at output powers ~1 W at 1064 nm.

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Accepted/In Press date: 22 December 2014
e-pub ahead of print date: 16 January 2015
Published date: 26 January 2015
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 375052
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/375052
ISSN: 1094-4087
PURE UUID: 909d4fa5-f13f-4e74-ad0c-7db98762244b
ORCID for Christopher Holmes: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9021-3760
ORCID for Corin B.E. Gawith: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3502-3558
ORCID for James C. Gates: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8671-5987
ORCID for Peter G.R. Smith: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0319-718X

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Date deposited: 10 Mar 2015 16:57
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:27

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Author: Lewis Carpenter
Author: Peter Cooper
Author: Corin B.E. Gawith ORCID iD
Author: James C. Gates ORCID iD
Author: Peter G.R. Smith ORCID iD

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