Title :
Modes of multi-end-pumped nonplanar ring laser
Author :
Wuqun Liu ; Yujing Huo ; Xiaodong Yin ; Dalong Zhao
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
A novel multi-end-pumped nonplanar ring Nd:YAG laser with two-mirror cavity was demonstrated. A model was developed for attaining all beam loop modes of the laser cavity and calculating the mirror separation of each mode. With single-diode laser pumping, the operations of different modes at 1.064 μm were performed and the experimental results are in excellent agreement with the model. Using three laser diodes as the pumping sources led to over threefold increase in output power.
Keywords :
laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser modes; neodymium; optical pumping; ring lasers; solid lasers; Nd:YAG laser; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; beam loop modes; mirror separation; multiend-pumped nonplanar ring laser modes; two-mirror cavity; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Mirrors; Optical resonators; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Solid lasers; Diode-multi-end-pumped; YAG lasers; neodymium; ring lasers; solid lasers;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2005.853252
