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In this effort, we report on the preservation of the spatial mode quality as composite vortex beams propagate through a flashlamp pumped amplifier system. Because of the spatially asymmetric nature of the transient thermal lensing, a laser beam propagating through this type of amplifier will be distorted. This makes an ideal environment to assess the mode integrity of propagating composite vortex beams. We demonstrate that a 3-lobe composite vortex beam can propagate under extreme transient thermal lensing and maintain the mode structure through the amplification process. Even though the actual amplification wasn’t the main thrust of this effort, we demonstrate gain greater than a factor of 4 for two different seed energy levels. Since the flashlamp pumped system is an extreme case, this result shows the potential for using concentric vortex beams in high power amplifiers and could open up new applications in propagation and sensing.
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Keith Miller, Yuan Li, Wenzhe Li, Ramesh K. Shori, Eric G. Johnson, "Pulsed amplification of 2 µm composite vortex beams (Conference Presentation)," Proc. SPIE 10082, Solid State Lasers XXVI: Technology and Devices, 1008205 (21 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2256595