Coherent combination of high-power, zigzag slab lasers
Optics Letters, Vol. 31, Issue 9, pp. 1247-1249 (2006)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.31.001247
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Abstract
We demonstrate a scalable architecture for a high-power, high-brightness, solid-state laser based on coherent combinations of master oscillator power amplifier chains. A common master oscillator injects a sequence of multikilowatt Nd:YAG zigzag slab amplifiers. Adaptive optics correct the wavefront of each amplified beamlet. The beamlets are tiled side by side and actively phase locked to form a single output beam. The laser produces
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OCIS Codes
(140.3280) Lasers and laser optics : Laser amplifiers
(140.3290) Lasers and laser optics : Laser arrays
(140.3530) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, neodymium
ToC Category:
Lasers and Laser Optics
History
Original Manuscript: January 5, 2006
Revised Manuscript: January 27, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: February 2, 2006
Citation
G. D. Goodno, H. Komine, S. J. McNaught, S. B. Weiss, S. Redmond, W. Long, R. Simpson, E. C. Cheung, D. Howland, P. Epp, M. Weber, M. McClellan, J. Sollee, and H. Injeyan, "Coherent combination of high-power, zigzag slab lasers," Opt. Lett. 31, 1247-1249 (2006)
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