Title :
A highly astigmatic solid-state laser with improved mode matching and thermal management
Author :
Blows, J.L. ; Dawes, J.M. ; Piper, J.A.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Lasers & Applications, Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Diode-laser bars are now regularly employed as efficient high-power pump sources for end pumped Nd:YAG solid-state lasers. The majority of these lasers are designed around a circularly symmetric cavity. There are, however, considerable advantages to be gained when we bring the output of the diode-laser bar to a line focus within the crystal, to overlap an elliptical cavity mode. Line-focus pumped systems offer the scope for power scaling by lengthening the pump volume while increasing its power proportionally.
Keywords :
aberrations; laser modes; mode matching; neodymium; optical focusing; optical pumping; solid lasers; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; circularly symmetric cavity; diode-laser bars; efficient high-power pump sources; elliptical cavity mode; end pumped Nd:YAG solid-state lasers; highly astigmatic solid-state laser; improved mode matching; line focus; line-focus pumped systems; power scaling; pump volume; thermal management; Diodes; Heat pumps; Heat sinks; Laser excitation; Optical pumping; Power generation; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Thermal management;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-339-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1998.675925
