Diode pumped thin slab solid-state lasers

Xiaojin Cheng; Zhiming Wang; Fan Chen; Jianqiu Xu

doi:10.1117/12.823267

18 February 2009 Diode pumped thin slab solid-state lasers

Xiaojin Cheng, Zhiming Wang, Fan Chen, Jianqiu Xu

Proceedings Volume 7276, Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings (POEM) 2008: Laser Technology and Applications; 72761B (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.823267
Event: Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings, 2008, Wuhan, China

Abstract

Thermal effect is a serious problem in solid-state lasers. Because of superior thermal property which owed to high aspect ratio of laser crystal, solid-state lasers with thin slab configuration can be scaling to high output power with different laser crystal material and pump structure. In this paper, we present side-pumped passive Q-switched and acousto-optic Q-switched Nd: YAG lasers and end-pumped Tm: YAP lasers. We got a maximum 70W output power of passive Q-switched Nd: YAG laser with 220W pump power, which the pulse duration is around 10ns and the pulse repetition rate is higher than 10kHz. And 73W output power is got while pump power is 200W in acousto-optic Q-switched Nd: YAG lasers. Especially, we also applied the thin slab configuration to end pumped Tm: YAP laser and got a maximum 9.6W output power which the doping concentrations is 4% and cut by c-axis.

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Xiaojin Cheng, Zhiming Wang, Fan Chen, and Jianqiu Xu "Diode pumped thin slab solid-state lasers", Proc. SPIE 7276, Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings (POEM) 2008: Laser Technology and Applications, 72761B (18 February 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.823267

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