Abstract

A numerical method for analyzing a folded or ring cavity is presented. Astigmatic compensated parameters, stability regions, and beam parameters inside the cavity or within the gain medium can be obtained numerically as long as the intracavity beam propagation can be expressed by round-trip matrices, no matter how complicated the cavity is. This method is easy to follow, and the results are accurate.

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