Thermally induced optically distortion effects are one of the main impediments to be overcome in developing high power solid-state lasers. To compensate the dynamic aberration of laser beam, an intra-cavity adaptive optical system was developed. A beaconing light was introduced to measure the wavefront aberration of intracavity laser beam and a MEMS deformable mirror was used to improve the wavefront aberration and output power of the laser. A genetic algorithm was used to adjust the control voltages of 37 independent electrodes to vary the shape of the deformable mirror surface such that the ...
