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.
