• DocumentCode
    2148248
  • Title

    Laser operation of highly doped TGT grown Nd:YAG in a bounce geometry

  • Author

    Minassian, A. ; Sautter, D. ; Damzen, M.J. ; Jiang, Benxue ; Li, Hongjun ; Xu, Jun

  • Author_Institution
    Imperial Coll. London, London
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    17-22 June 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    This paper reports for the first time a laser operation of 2 at.% and 3 at.% doped temperature gradient technique (TGT) grown Nd:YAG samples in the bounce geometry. The bounce geometry cavity design facilitates high power, high efficiency laser operation with high beam quality.
  • Keywords
    crystal growth; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; neodymium; optical materials; solid lasers; Nd:YAG crystals; YAG:Nd; beam quality; bounce geometry; cavity design; laser operation; temperature gradient technique; Crystals; Doping; Educational institutions; Geometrical optics; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Optical pumping; Power generation; Power lasers; Pump lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0931-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0931-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4385888
  • Filename
    4385888