Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5192709
