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Q spoil
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en 1962 SPIE Journal - Volumes 1-2 233 Model 402 Laser Q Spoiler is designed to Q spoil laser beams up to 5/8" in diameter.
en 1967 Program of research for selective aperture Q-spoiling of a lasar with birefringement scanning mechanism to achieve beam steering G. C. Vorie; T. R. Babcock 12 The equipment for the experiment was In Figure 8, the quarter-wave plate was positioned to "Q" spoil the cavity during the absence of a shear wave in the birefringent bar.
en 1977 Journal of the Optical Society of America A unique realization of a one-bounce Fresnel rhomb is presented which, in concert with a linear polarizer, may be used to Q spoil a laser cavity.