• DocumentCode
    411690
  • Title

    Microoptic spatial mode conversion for terawatt class amplifiers

  • Author

    Chowdhury, Enam A. ; Ongadi, George ; Walker, Barry C. ; Tamosaitis, Robert S. ; Leleko, Vladimir

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Delaware Univ., Newark, DE, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    6-6 June 2003
  • Abstract
    Microoptic technology is used in a terawatt multipass Ti:sapphire amplifier to convert high multimode, 532 nm radiation from an unstable resonator Nd:YAG laser into TEM00, M2=1.04+-0.06 amplified output without sacrificing the amplified/pump energy conversion efficiency.
  • Keywords
    laser cavity resonators; micro-optics; neodymium; sapphire; solid lasers; spatial filters; titanium; 532 nm; Ti:Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; microoptic spatial mode conversion; microoptic technology; pump energy conversion efficiency; terawatt class amplifier; terawatt multipass Ti:sapphire amplifier; unstable resonator Nd:YAG laser; Laser excitation; Optical amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Optical signal processing; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-748-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1297770