500 W Nd:YAG zigzag slab MOPA laser

Cui, Jingshi; Liu, Qiang; Fu, Xing; Yan, Xiaoyun; Zhang, H.; Gong, Mali

doi:10.1134/s1054660x09190050

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“…For applications requiring more energetic pulses or higher average power, the laser oscillator output can be further amplified using a laser amplifier in various configurations involving regenerative amplifier [10], zigzag slab geometry [11,12], multiple amplification media [13], or hybrid fiber and solid-state system [14]. These configurations are usually based on Nd:YAG or Nd:YVO 4 active materials with concentrations below 1 at.%.…”

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0.8 mJ quasi-continuously pumped sub-nanosecond highly doped Nd:YAG oscillator-amplifier laser system in bounce geometry

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Abstract:A quasi-continuously pumped picosecond oscillator-amplifier laser system based on two identical 2.4% Nd:YAG slabs in a single bounce geometry was developed and investigated. The oscillator was passively mode locked by the multiple quantum well saturable absorber inserted into the resonator in transmission mode. Output train containing 7 pulses with total energy of 900 μJ was generated directly from the oscillator. Single pulse with energy of 75 μJ, duration of 113 ps and Gaussian spatial profile was cavity dumped from the resonator and amplified by the single pass amplifier to the energy of 830 μJ. Comparison with our previously reported data obtained with similar system based on Nd:GdVO4 shows advantage of using highly doped Nd:YAG for generation of sub-millijoule pulses in one hundred picoseconds range, which might be interesting in many applications. Schematic of the laser oscillator and amplifier

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0.8 mJ quasi-continuously pumped sub-nanosecond highly doped Nd:YAG oscillator-amplifier laser system in bounce geometry

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“…High power zigzag slab laser oscillator employing two composite Nd:YAG/YAG slab in the cavity with output power 401 W with optical-optical efficiency of 32.6% was presented in [5]. Diode-pumped master-oscillator-power-amplifier (MOPA) lasers also has been researched by a great number of institutions in recent years [6][7][8][9].…”

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Polymer coated Nd:YAG slab laser with 100 W output power

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A diode-pumped Nd:YAG oscillator with an endpumped zigzag slab architecture and polymer coating of total internal reflection (TIR) surfaces is developed. An output power of 105 W with a slope efficiency of 34% and an optical conversion efficiency of 25% is achieved from the plane-plane resonator, which emits the maximum power at 400-W pump power. The influence of evanescent wave losses on the lasing efficiency is demonstrated. Output power, W 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 Input power, W 10 bounces 12 bounces 14 bounces Input/output data for slab laser at different number of bounces of TIR surfaces c

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“…For applications requiring more energetic pulses or higher average power, the laser oscillator output can be further amplified using a laser amplifier in various configurations involving regenerative amplifier (Luhrmann, 2009), zigzag slab geometry (Cui, 2009;Fu, 2010), multiple amplification media (Fu, 2009), or hybrid fiber and solid-state system (Wushouer, 2010). These configurations are usually based on Nd:YAG or Nd:YVO 4 active materials with concentrations below 1 at.%.…”

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confidence: 99%