High-power single transverse mode operation of a compact CW Nd:YAG slab laser with thermal lens control

Author

Mudge, D. ; Ostermeyer, M. ; Veitch, P.I. ; Munch, J. ; Hamilton, M.W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Math. Phys., Adelaide Univ., SA, Australia

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

200

Abstract

Summary form only given. The diode-laser pumped, CW laser presented is being developed for use as a high-power slave in an injection-locked laser system, for the detection of gravitational waves in long baseline interferometry. It is a very compact Nd:YAG slab laser, based on a crystal geometry developed by Richards and McInnes (1995).

Keywords

gravitational wave detectors; laser beams; laser modes; light interferometry; measurement by laser beam; neodymium; nonlinear optics; optical pumping; solid lasers; Nd:YAG slab laser; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; compact CW slab laser; crystal geometry; diode-laser pumped CW laser; gravitational waves; high-power operation; high-power single transverse mode operation; high-power slave; injection-locked laser system; long baseline interferometry; single transverse mode operation; thermal lens control; Diodes; Laser modes; Laser theory; Lenses; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Slabs; Thermal lensing; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-634-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2000.906909

Filename

906909