Principles and limitations of a quarter-wave plate for reducing the depolarization loss from thermally induced birefringence in Nd:YAG lasers

A simple device to allow enhanced bandwidths at 850 nm in multimode fibre links for gigabit LANs

M. Webster, L.J. Sargent, P.J. Heard et al. · 2003 · 342 citations

Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Optics +14

Effect of birefringence on the performance of linearly polarized YAG:Nd lasers

Walter Koechner, Daragh Rice · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics · 1970 · 211 citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Science, Optical Materials +13

BIREFRINGENCE COMPENSATION AND TEM00 MODE ENHANCEMENT IN A Nd: YAG LASER

W. C. Scott, M. de Wit · Applied Physics Letters · 1971 · 161 citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Optics +14

A New Calculus for the Treatment of Optical SystemsVI Experimental Determination of the Matrix*

R. Clark Jones · Journal of the Optical Society of America · 1947 · 135 citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Science, Materials Characterization +11

A novel approach for compensation of birefringence in cylindrical Nd: YAG rods

Nicolas Kugler, H. Weber, Shuo Dong et al. · Optical and Quantum Electronics · 1996 · 132 citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +11