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261.10 Material Loss Mechanisms in LasersIn Section 1.5 several cavity loss mechanisms that degrade the Q factor were mentioned.In this section we consider a number of material loss mechanisms inside thelaser cavity that aect the lasing quantum eciency. The eciency in a downconversionlaser, = dP out =dP in , is governed by the energy conservation rule E signal
27which is negative for both uoride and phosphate glasses, results from an unequalrefractive index variation across the pump beam's Gaussian prole. Mode propagationbecomes distorted in the presence of this lensing. These issues have varying degreesof importance in the two glasses of study and will be elucidated in later chapters.
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