• DocumentCode
    2860669
  • Title

    Silicon carbide cooled solid-state laser

  • Author

    Newburgh, G.A. ; Dubinskii, Mark

  • Author_Institution
    AMSRL-SE-EO, US Army Res. Lab., Adelphi, MD
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Optical silicon carbide is proposed for face cooling in bulk solid-state lasers instead of currently used diamond. First demonstrations resulted in 24% slope efficiency of the SiC-cooled Nd:YAG laser despite double SiC/YAG interface intracavity loss.
  • Keywords
    laser cavity resonators; optical materials; silicon compounds; solid lasers; Nd:YAG laser; SiC-YAG:Nd; interface intracavity loss; optical silicon carbide; silicon carbide cooled solid-state laser; temperature distribution; Adaptive optics; Assembly; Gas lasers; Optical materials; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Silicon carbide; Solid lasers; (140.3580) Lasers, solid-state;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627581
  • Filename
    4627581
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2860669