• DocumentCode
    2893051
  • Title

    Power scalability of thin disk lasers in fundamental mode operation

  • Author

    Stohenburg, C. ; Speiser, J. ; Larionov, M. ; Giesen, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. fur Strahlwerkzeuge, Stuttgart Univ., Germany
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    12-17 June 2005
  • Firstpage
    6
  • Abstract
    Experimental results and numerical simulations for the power scalability of an Yb:YAG thin disk laser in fundamental mode operation are presented. So far, an output power of 225 W with an M2<1.1 is demonstrated.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; laser materials processing; laser modes; numerical analysis; solid lasers; ytterbium; 225 W; YAG:Yb; YAl5O12:Yb; fundamental mode operation; laser beam quality; laser material processing; laser power; power scalability; thin disk laser; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Numerical simulation; Optical design; Optical pumping; Power generation; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Scalability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005. CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8974-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1567795
  • Filename
    1567795