High-beam-quality operation of a 150 W diode-pumped, solid-state planar waveguide laser

H. J. Baker; J. R. Lee; D. R. Hall

High-beam-quality operation of a 150 W diode-pumped, solid-state planar waveguide laser

H. J. Baker, J. R. Lee, D. R. Hall

School of Engineering & Physical Sciences

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Abstract

The planar waveguide solid-state laser, using a large core neodymium doped YAG waveguide and face-pumping by diode bar arrays, is currently producing a multi-mode-mode power up to 160 W, and high beam quality operation at 100 W. The large core waveguide has been shown to be capable of scaling to higher powers. In this paper, experimental developments in multi-pass face-pumping are presented, using double-sided pumping of the waveguide section, and ray tracing techniques are presented which provide an assessment of the pumping efficiency.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	500-504
Number of pages	5
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - the International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	5120
Publication status	Published - 2003
Event	XIV International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, and High-Power Lasers - Wroclaw, Poland Duration: 25 Aug 2002 → 30 Aug 2002

Keywords

Face-pumping
Laser diode pumping
Planar waveguide laser
Pumping efficiency

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High-beam-quality operation of a 150 W diode-pumped, solid-state planar waveguide laser

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