• DocumentCode
    3725943
  • Title

    High average power picosecond sapphire face-cooled Nd :YVO4 bounce laser system

  • Author

    Maya Kowa;Masashi Abe;Katsuhiko Miyamoto;Takashige Omatsu

  • Author_Institution
    Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We developed a high average power, diffraction-limited (M2~1.1) picosecond laser system formed of a sapphire face-cooled Nd:YVO4 slab amplifier with a multi-pass geometry. Average output power of 46.4 W was obtained at an optical-optical efficiency of 56%.
  • Keywords
    "Laser beams","Slabs","Laser excitation","Power amplifiers","Lenses","Power generation","Geometry"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7375935
  • Filename
    7375935