• DocumentCode
    3668112
  • Title

    Diode-pumped continuous wave multi-watt Yb:KYW laser with high efficiency and excellent beam quality

  • Author

    S. Manjooran;A. Major

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. Electrical &
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    In this work we report on a diode end pumped bulk Yb:KYW laser with 9 W of output power at 1045 nm wavelength with the highest slope efficiency of 88.9% (in high power regime) compared to all other diode pumped Yb-doped lasers. The average beam quality factor was 1.07.
  • Keywords
    "Laser beams","Laser excitation","Power generation","Thermal lensing","Optical harmonic generation","Ultrafast optics","Optical fibers"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics North, 2015
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PN.2015.7292496
  • Filename
    7292496