• DocumentCode
    2264394
  • Title

    1-kW high-beam-quality Nd:YAG rod laser with cascaded-coupling of bifocusing compensation resonators

  • Author

    Furuta, K. ; Fujikawa, S. ; Konno, S. ; Kojima, T. ; Yasui, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Adv. Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Hyogo, Japan
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    24-24 May 2002
  • Firstpage
    177
  • Abstract
    Summary from only given. Strong thermal lensing of Nd:YAG rods limits the output power under high-quality beam generation. In this work, we demonstrated a power scaling of Nd:YAG rod laser over 1-kW while maintaining high-beam-quality and high-efficiency by cascaded-coupling of bifocusing compensation resonators.
  • Keywords
    compensation; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; neodymium; optical focusing; solid lasers; thermal lensing; 1 kW; Nd:YAG rod laser; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; bifocusing compensation resonators; cascaded-coupling; high-quality beam generation; power scaling; strong thermal lensing; Diodes; Doping; Laser beams; Laser modes; Optical refraction; Optical resonators; Power generation; Power measurement; Quantum cascade lasers; Solid lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033586
  • Filename
    1033586