1.6 W of single-mode output power from a novel power-scaling scheme for monolithic nonplanar ring lasers
Optics Letters, Vol. 29, Issue 14, pp. 1635-1637 (2004)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.29.001635
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Abstract
A novel monolithic ring laser with high potential for power scaling, the disk nonplanar ring oscillator, is presented. We achieved power scaling by reducing the pump-light-induced aberrations. The basic idea of our approach is to attach a thin Nd:YAG disk to an undoped nonplanar YAG ring resonator while the other side of the disk is mounted on a heat sink. First promising experiments have demonstrated a single-frequency cw output power of 1.6 W at 1.06μm with a slope efficiency of 45%. Power scaling to several watts seems to be possible.
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OCIS Codes
(140.3410) Lasers and laser optics : Laser resonators
(140.3480) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, diode-pumped
(140.3530) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, neodymium
(140.3560) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, ring
(140.3570) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, single-mode
(140.3580) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, solid-state
Citation
Hagen Zimer and Ulrich Wittrock, "1.6 W of single-mode output power from a novel power-scaling
scheme for monolithic nonplanar ring lasers," Opt. Lett. 29, 1635-1637 (2004)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-29-14-1635
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