Efficient adaptive self-starting Nd:YVO/sub 4/ gain grating laser oscillator

Summary from only given. Self adaptive laser resonators based on laser induced gain gratings have successfully demonstrated correction of thermally induced aberrations in solid-state lasers. This technique has recently been shown to produce distortion corrected beams in a diode pumped, injected seeded system in Nd:YVO/sub 4/. This paper describes the first characterization of a fully self-starting, high power Nd:YVO/sub 4/ self adaptive laser without the requirement of an external seed source.