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Thermally induced birefringence and thermal lensing in Nd:YAG rod amplifier was compensated by a 90° rotator with three sets of imaging optics. Experimentally, 2.8% single pass birefringence loss was achieved and a nearly diffraction limited amplified output was observed.
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