Abstract
We study beam polarization and crystallographic-orientation dependency of thermal effects in Yb:CaF2 crystals at LN2 temperature. Significant anisotropy for a cubic crystal is demonstrated resulting in polarization-dependent thermal-astigmatism or asymmetric depolarization pattern.
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