Face pumping of thin, solid-state slab lasers with laser diodes
Optics Letters, Vol. 21, Issue 8, pp. 594-596 (1996)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.21.000594
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Abstract
A new technique for face pumping of slab lasers uses transfer of light from 10 quasi-cw laser diode bars through a slotted mirror into a rectangular, highly reflective pump chamber, giving efficient multipass pumping of a thin Nd:glass slab laser. A slope efficiency of 28% and a maximum pulse energy of 65 mJ have been obtained, and gain and loss measurements with thickness t = 0.45–1.04 mm have confirmed the 1/t scaling of gain in thin slabs and the high efficiency of pump light transfer.
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A. Faulstich, H. J. Baker, and D. R. Hall, "Face pumping of thin, solid-state slab lasers with laser diodes," Opt. Lett. 21, 594-596 (1996)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-21-8-594
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