Diode-pumped, grazing incidence slab lasers

Author

Alcock, A.J. ; Bernard, J.E.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Microstructural Sci., Nat. Res. Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

30 Oct-2 Nov 1995

Firstpage

186

Abstract

A grazing incidence slab configuration provides a novel approach to the design of efficient, diode pumped lasers based on materials with a relatively high absorption coefficient at the pump wavelength. Although high doping and/or a large absorption cross section at the pump wavelength are required, a significant number of solid state laser materials appear to satisfy these criteria. Nevertheless only a few sytems have been demonstrated so far. In our work Nd-doped materials, Nd:YVO₄ and Nd:GdVO₄ have been investigated

Keywords

absorption coefficients; gadolinium compounds; laser cavity resonators; neodymium; optical materials; optical pumping; solid lasers; yttrium compounds; GdVO₄:Nd; Nd-doped materials; Nd:GdVO₄; Nd:YVO₄; YVO₄:Nd; diode pumped lasers; diode-pumped slab lasers; grazing incidence slab lasers; high absorption coefficient; high doping; large absorption cross section; pump wavelength; solid lasers; solid state laser materials; Absorption; Diodes; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Neodymium; Optical materials; Optimized production technology; Oscillators; Pump lasers; Slabs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1995. 8th Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, Volume 1., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2450-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1995.484658

Filename

484658