High stability resonator for pulsed solid state lasers

Abstract

We propose a new resonator configuration which has high stability against mirror misalignment and also has high damage threshold suitable for pulsed laser operation. It was experimentally shown that in our new resonator scheme with appropriate parameters; the output energy was practically stable for mirror misalignment tilting angle up to +/-30 mrad, which is 20 times larger than that with ordinary resonator configurations.