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High-power near-diffraction-limited solid-state amplified spontaneous emission laser devices

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We present investigations into high-power scaling of solid-state amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) laser sources by use of two high-gain (104) Nd:YVO4 bounce amplifiers. The sources deliver high power with a high-quality spatial output, but unlike a laser they have a high misalignment tolerance and do not require a precisely aligned cavity. In one system with two amplifiers, we demonstrate an ASE source with 24.5W of output power with good spatial quality, M2<2.5 in the horizontal and M2<1.2 in the vertical. In a more sophisticated setup, the two amplifiers are arranged in a loop configuration producing 30W of ASE output with near-diffraction-limited spatial quality, with M2<1.3 in the horizontal and M2<1.2 in the vertical, at an 38% optical-to-optical conversion efficiency.

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