Title :
Development of a solid state laser amplifier source for the third generation of gravitational wave detectors
Author :
Basu, Chandrajit ; Puncken, Oliver ; Winkelmann, Lutz ; Wessels, Peter ; Neumann, Jörg ; Kracht, Dietmar
Abstract :
A solid state amplifier system was developed, using a commercial single frequency, nonplanar ring oscillator (NPRO) seed source, two stages of Nd:YVO4 based pre-amplifier and four stages of Nd:YAG based amplifier in a single pass series configuration.
Keywords :
gravitational wave detectors; laser stability; neodymium; solid lasers; NPRO; YAG:Nd; YVO4:Nd; gravitational wave detectors; nonplanar ring oscillator; seed source; single frequency oscillator; single pass series configuration; solid state laser amplifier source;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942468