Title :
Advances in solid state lasers with nonlinear phase conjugate mirrors
Author :
Huignard, J.-P. ; Brignon, Arnaud
Author_Institution :
Corporate Res. Lab., Thomson-CSF, Orsay, France
Abstract :
Summary form only. The availability of high power laser diodes leads to new generation of all solid state lasers including new configurations of diode pumping to increase the laser efficiency and extract much higher energy or average power from the amplifying medium. However, high power pumping brings thermal loading which induces stress birefringence and spatial aberrations. These thermal effects corrupt the laser brightness and therefore induce a degradation of the spatial beam profile.
Keywords :
laser mirrors; mechanical birefringence; optical phase conjugation; semiconductor lasers; solid lasers; all solid state lasers; amplifying medium; high power laser diodes; high power pumping; laser brightness; laser efficiency; nonlinear phase conjugate mirrors; spatial aberrations; spatial beam profile; stress birefringence; thermal effects; thermal loading; Availability; Birefringence; Diode lasers; Laser excitation; Power generation; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Thermal loading; Thermal stresses;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nice
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6319-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2000.910191
