Speaker
Level for award<br> (Hons, MSc, <br> PhD, N/A)?
Msc
Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)?
No
Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution
Prof. Andrew Forbes, andrew.forbes@wits.ac.za, University of the Witwatersrand
Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> award (Yes / No)?
Yes
Abstract content <br> (Max 300 words)<br><a href="http://events.saip.org.za/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=0&confId=34" target="_blank">Formatting &<br>Special chars</a>
Present laser designator designs incorporate porro prisms, for alignment purposes, with a single mode as output. While this makes the design insensitive to alignment, it comes at a cost since the resonator contains many custom optical elements. Here we outline the design of a low cost passively Q-switched laser that produces a single pulse with no side lobes in the far field. We replace the porro prisms and lenses with curved mirrors, appropriately designed to produce identical optical transforms, so that the output is similar. In addition, we outline the approach to compact this configuration into a monolithic design for robust performance in a miniature package. We demonstrate the concepts experimentally and numerically, the latter using Fox-Li approach to modeling resonator modes with the Collin’s integral for the system under study.
Please indicate whether<br>this abstract may be<br>published online<br>(Yes / No)
Yes
