High brightness MOPA

Author

Gonzalez, L. ; Kleine, K. ; Marshall, L.R.

Author_Institution

Light Solution Corp., Mountain View, CA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Summary form only given. Power scaling of CW diode pumped lasers is plagued by thermal aberrations. We present a novel power scaling method using the benefits of bright pumping to achieve high brightness in an oscillator and high gain in a CW amplifier. The Nd:YVO/sub 4/ laser oscillator is pumped by two 30 W high-brightness diodes capable of maintaining a collimated 400 /spl mu/m pump spot over the 4 mm length of the gain medium, giving high gain.

Keywords

aberrations; brightness; neodymium; optical collimators; optical pumping; solid lasers; yttrium compounds; 30 W; 4 mm; 400 mum; CW amplifier; CW diode pumped lasers; Nd:YVO/sub 4/ laser oscillator; YVO/sub 4/:Nd; bright pumping; collimated /spl mu/m pump spot; gain medium; high brightness; high brightness MOPA; high gain; high-brightness diodes; power scaling; power scaling method; thermal aberrations; Brightness; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Photonic crystal fibers; Power generation; Power lasers; Pump lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-595-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1999.833794

Filename

833794