Title :
Thermal effects in 3–5μm solid state lasers
Author :
Guoguang Lu ; Mingming Hao ; Yun Huang ; Yunfei En
Author_Institution :
Sci. & Technol. on Reliability Phys. & Applic. Technol. of Electr. Component Lab., CEPREI, Guangzhou, China
Abstract :
An investigation of thermal effects in a high power 3-5μm solid state laser pumped with different pump beam transverse profiles is carried out by COMSOL software based on the finite element method, and the temperature of the crystal center where the Super-Gaussian distributed light projected area is 81.8°C, and is bigger than that of Gaussian pump light mode and top plane pump light mode.
Keywords :
finite element analysis; laser beams; laser modes; optical pumping; solid lasers; COMSOL software; Gaussian pump light mode; crystal center; finite element method; high power solid state laser; pump beam transverse profiles; super-Gaussian distributed light projected area; thermal effects; top plane pump light mode; wavelength 3 mum to 5 mum; Crystals; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Temperature distribution; infrared; reliability; solid state laser; thermal effects;
Conference_Titel :
Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1014-4
DOI :
10.1109/QR2MSE.2013.6625754
