Pump Replication and Related Effects in Raman Beam Cleanup
John F. Reintjes, Robert H. Lehmberg, Gerald P. Calame, Michael T. Duignan · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1988
We examine conditions under which pump beam replication can occur in Raman beam cleanup with crossed pump beams. The dependence of pump beam replication on the small signal Raman gain and on the Stokes seed energy is explored.