Title :
Silicon carbide cooled solid-state laser
Author :
Newburgh, G.A. ; Dubinskii, Mark
Author_Institution :
AMSRL-SE-EO, US Army Res. Lab., Adelphi, MD
Abstract :
Optical silicon carbide is proposed for face cooling in bulk solid-state lasers instead of currently used diamond. First demonstrations resulted in 24% slope efficiency of the SiC-cooled Nd:YAG laser despite double SiC/YAG interface intracavity loss.
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; optical materials; silicon compounds; solid lasers; Nd:YAG laser; SiC-YAG:Nd; interface intracavity loss; optical silicon carbide; silicon carbide cooled solid-state laser; temperature distribution; Adaptive optics; Assembly; Gas lasers; Optical materials; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Silicon carbide; Solid lasers; (140.3580) Lasers, solid-state;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627581
