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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-748-2
