Abstract
We demonstrate a large-aperture gas-cooled Faraday rotator designed to mitigate stress-induced depolarization in high-energy, high-power laser systems. Compensating for a surrogate depolarization plate at 3.3 kW, the rotator reduces the relative depolarized energy from 36% to 1%.
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