A 100 W, near diffraction limited, copper HyBrID laser oscillator

Richard P. Mildren; David R. Jones; D. J. W. Brown

doi:10.1088/0022-3727/31/15/008

A 100 W, near diffraction limited, copper HyBrID laser oscillator

Richard P. Mildren, David R. Jones, D. J. W. Brown

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We report on the operation of a 6 cm bore copper HyBrID laser which incorporates a high-magnification (M = 280) negative-branch confocal optical resonator and utilizes a magnetic pulse compression excitation circuit. 125 W total output was obtained at a pulse repetition frequency of 12.5 kHz, of which 101 W (i.e. 80% of the total) was high beam quality output. 'Power in the bucket' measurements revealed that >66% of the high beam quality output was within the diffraction limit (62 µrad), and >88% within the 1.6x diffraction limit.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1812-1816
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Volume	31
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/31/15/008
Publication status	Published - 7 Aug 1998

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