Demonstration of a diode pumped continuous wave potassium laser

Boris V. Zhdanov; Michael K. Shaffer; Randall J. Knize

doi:10.1117/12.871599

17 February 2011 Demonstration of a diode pumped continuous wave potassium laser

Boris V. Zhdanov, Michael K. Shaffer, Randall J. Knize

Proceedings Volume 7915, High Energy/Average Power Lasers and Intense Beam Applications V; 791506 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.871599
Event: SPIE LASE, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

This paper presents a first demonstration of a diode pumped Potassium laser. Two narrowband laser diode arrays with a linewidth about 10 GHz operating at 766.7 nm were used to pump Potassium vapor buffered by Helium gas at 600 torr. A stable laser cavity with longitudinal pumping and orthogonal polarizations of the pump and laser beams was used in this experiment. A slope efficiency about 25% was obtained.

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Boris V. Zhdanov, Michael K. Shaffer, and Randall J. Knize "Demonstration of a diode pumped continuous wave potassium laser", Proc. SPIE 7915, High Energy/Average Power Lasers and Intense Beam Applications V, 791506 (17 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.871599

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