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
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"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7375935