Abstract

Phase conjugation (PC) via stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) has been shown to be a viable technique for improving the performance of advanced solid-state lasers.¹ Exploiting PC in lasers producing output energies >10 J requires a phase-conjugate mirror (PCM) that produces good conjugation fidelity at energies >1 J. The most practical approach for scaling the energy of SBS PCMs exploits a dual-cell SBS oscillator-amplifier² (SBS O-A). The essential idea is analogous to master oscillator slave amplifier (MOPA) lasers.

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