Title :
4.2 W Cr/sup 2+/:ZnSe face cooled disk laser
Author :
McKay, J.B. ; Roh, W.B. ; Schepler, K.L.
Author_Institution :
Air Force Inst. of Technol., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA
Abstract :
Summary from only given. We have shown that the face-cooled disk laser can effectively reduce thermal effects in Cr/sup 2+/ lasers by demonstrating a 4.2-W, Cr/sup 2+/:ZnSe, face-cooled disk laser with output power limited only by the available pump power. The difficulty of compensating for thermal lensing inside a resonator is traded for the less difficult task of efficiently absorbing the pump laser in a thin laser crystal.
Keywords :
chromium; cooling; laser cavity resonators; optical pumping; semiconductor lasers; thermal lensing; zinc compounds; 4.2 W; Cr/sup 2+/:ZnSe; ZnSe:Cr/sup 2+/; face-cooled disk laser; laser resonator; output power; pump laser; pump power; thermal effects; thermal lensing compensation; Chromium; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Optical sensors; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Zinc compounds;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-706-7
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033506
