Power scaling of high power thin-disk lasers with high beam quality

Author

Mende, J. ; Schmid, E. ; Speiser, J. ; Spindler, G. ; Giesen, A.

Author_Institution

German Aerosp. Center, Inst. of Tech. Phys., Stuttgart, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this paper, we report on our development of new concepts for power scaling of Yb:YAG thin-disk lasers with high brightness. Thin-disk laser resonators can be considered as resonators with variable internal lenses. Usually, there are dynamically stable configurations of this type of laser resonators with maximum insensitivity of the mode radius in the laser active medium to variations of the refractive power of the internal lens (thin-disk).

Keywords

laser beams; laser stability; lenses; microcavity lasers; microdisc lasers; solid lasers; ytterbium; yttrium compounds; YAG:Yb; dynamical stable configuration; high-power thin-disk laser resonators; laser active medium; laser beam quality; laser power scaling; laser resonators; refractive power; variable internal lenses; Equations; Information processing; Laser beams; Laser modes; Optical polarization; Photonics; Power lasers; Solitons; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5192709

Filename

5192709