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The article is devoted to an analysis of the nonlinear processes that arise when powerful beams propagate in the optical medium of an Nd laser and influence its output parameters. A review is presented of the methods of theoretically describing the processes of temporal and spatial self-focusing, and experimental data are cited that illustrate the character of the course of the self-focusing in the generators and amplifiers of a high-power laser. Possible methods of suppressing self-focusing in a laser installation are considered.
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Translated from Trudy Ordena Lenina Fizicheskogo Instituta im. P. N. Lebedeva, Vol. 103, pp. 84–117, 1978.
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Baranova, N.B., Bykovskii, N.E., Senat-skii, Y.V. et al. Nonlinear processes in the optical medium of a high-power neodymium laser. J Russ Laser Res 1, 62–88 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01120451
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