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
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