Enhancement of laser performance using an
intracavity deformable membrane mirror

doi:10.1364/OE.16.010943

Enhancement of laser performance using an intracavity deformable membrane mirror

Walter Lubeigt, Gareth Valentine, and David Burns »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 15, pp. 10943-10955 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.16.010943

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Abstract

An intracavity deformable membrane mirror has been successfully used to optimise the brightness of solid-state lasers — a side-pumped Nd³⁺:YAlO laser where the oscillation of a low-order transverse mode was obtained, and a grazing incidence Nd³⁺:GdVO₄ laser where a brightness increase by an order of magnitude with negligible drop in power was achieved. Several search algorithms were also implemented in the system and compared with respect to intracavity optimisation.

OCIS Codes
(010.1080) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Active or adaptive optics
(140.3580) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, solid-state
(140.6810) Lasers and laser optics : Thermal effects

ToC Category:
Lasers and Laser Optics

History
Original Manuscript: April 1, 2008
Revised Manuscript: June 30, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: July 2, 2008
Published: July 8, 2008

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Walter Lubeigt, Gareth Valentine, and David Burns, "Enhancement of laser performance using an intracavity deformable membrane mirror," Opt. Express 16, 10943-10955 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-15-10943

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Appl. Phys. B

A. Minassian, B. Thompson, and M. J. Damzen, "Ultrahigh-efficiency TEM00 diode-side-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser," Appl. Phys. B 76, 341-343 (2003). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Quantum Electron. QE

J. M. Eggleston, T. Kane, K. Kuhn, J. Unternahrer, and R. L. Byer, "The slab geometry laser. I. Theory," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. QE- 20, 289-301 (1984). [CrossRef]

J. Appl. Phys.

G. D. Boyd and D. A. Kleinman, "Parametric interaction of focused gaussian light beams," J. Appl. Phys. 39, 8-3597 (1968). [CrossRef]

J. Chem. Phys.

N. Metropolis, A. W. Rosenbluth, M. N. Rosenbluth, A. H. Teller, and E. Teller, "Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines," J. Chem. Phys. 21, 1087-1092 (1953). [CrossRef]

Microsc. Res. Tech.

A. J. Wright, D. Burns, B. A. Patterson, S. P. Poland, G. J. Valentine, and J. M. Girkin, "Exploration of the optimisation algorithms used in the implementation of adaptive optics in confocal and multiphoton microscopy," Microsc. Res. Tech. 6, 36-44 (2005). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

Proc. SPIE

D. Burns, G. J. Valentine, W. Lubeigt, E. Bente, and A. I. Ferguson, "Development of high average power picosecond laser systems," Proc. SPIE 4629, 4629-18 (2002).
U. Wittrock, Y. Buske, and H. M. Heuck, "Adaptive aberration control in laser amplifiers and laser resonators," Proc. SPIE 4969, 4969-122 (2003).

Science

S. Kirkpatrick, C. D. Gelatt, and M. P. Vecchi, "Optimization by simulated annealing," Science 220, 671-680 (1983). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Other

"Empirical comparison of stochastic algorithms" in Proceedings of the Second Nordic Workshop on Genetic Algorithms and their Applications, T. Jarmo, ed., Alander, Finland (1996).
DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH, Galileo Galilei-Strasse 10, D-55129 Mainz-Hechtsheim, Germany, www.dilas.de.
K. F. Man, Genetic Algorithms: concepts and designs, (Springer Series, 1999). [CrossRef]
P. Welp, Y. Buske, and U. Wittrock, "Intracavity use of adaptive mirrors in Nd:YVO4 and Nd:YAG lasers," presented at the 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine, Muenster, Germany, 19-24th October 2003.
R. Tyson, Principles of Adaptive Optics, 2nd edition, (Academic Press, 1998).
Flexible Optical B.V. , PO Box 581, 2600 AN, Delft, the Netherlands, www.okotech.com.
W. Koechner, Solid-State Laser Engineering, 5th edition (Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 1999).

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