Title :
Liquid-cooled ceramic Nd:YAG split-disk amplifier for advanced high-average-power laser
Author :
Okada, Hajime ; Yoshida, H. ; Sumimura, K. ; Fujita, H. ; Nakatsuka, M.
Author_Institution :
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, hokada@ile.osaka-u.ac.jp
Abstract :
A liquid-cooled ceramic Nd:YAG split-disk amplifier have been designed and demonstrated of 3.7-cm clear aperture with the compensation of wavefront degradation due to cooling and the small-signal gain was measured.
Keywords :
Ceramics; Coolants; Cooling; Crystalline materials; Laser beams; Laser sintering; Laser theory; Optical amplifiers; Optical materials; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2005. Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9242-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2005.1569555