Air-cooled diode-end-pumped Nd:YLF MOPA

Author

Feugnet, G. ; Brignon, Arnaud ; Larat, Christian ; Rolly, D. ; Schwarz, Mathias ; Pocholle, J.P. ; Lallier, Eric

Author_Institution

Corp. Res. Lab., Thomson-CSF, Orsay, France

fYear

2000

fDate

10-15 Sept. 2000

Abstract

Summary form only. Diode-pumped lasers have the potential of high efficiency, compactness and air-cooling. As an example, a 30 mJ diode-end-pumped air-cooled Nd:YAG master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) (now commercially available from Thomson-CSF Laser as DIVA) has previously been reported. The oscillator and the amplifier used the same pumping head, each made of a 1-kW-peak-power high-brightness stack coupled to a Nd:YAG crystal by a lens duct. We give an example using Nd:LiYF/sub 4/ as the active crystal.

Keywords

cooling; lithium compounds; neodymium; optical pumping; solid lasers; 1 W; 30 mJ; LiYF4:Nd; Nd:YAG crystal; Nd:YLF MOPA; Thomson-CSF Laser; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; YLF:Nd; air-cooled; air-cooling; compactness; diode-end-pumped; diode-end-pumped air-cooled Nd:YAG master oscillator power amplifier; diode-pumped lasers; high efficiency; high-brightness stack; lens duct; pumping head; Diodes; Indium tin oxide; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Lenses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Space technology; Thermal lensing; X-ray lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6319-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2000.909995

Filename

909995