Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group
Conferences > ASSL > 1995 > HP > HP5
  • Advanced Solid State Lasers
  • OSA Proceedings Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1995),
  • paper HP5

Simultaneous Optimization of Output Beam Quality and Average Power in a Multi-Pass Nd:YAG Slab Amplifier

P. Randall Staver, William T. Lotshaw, and Josef R. Unternahrer

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

Oscillator beam parameters strongly affect diffraction losses, extraction efficiency, and output beam quality of high peak power multipass amplifiers via linear and nonlinear effects in the amplifier crystal. We discuss a method which can be used to optimize the output power and beam quality of a slab amplifier by using measurements of the propagation of a test mode to specify constraints on the oscillator mode parameters and the focal power of the beam folding optics.

© 1995 Optical Society of America

PDF Article
More Like This
High Average Power, High Beam-Quality, Unstable-Resonator Slab Laser

J. R. Unternahrer, M. J. Kukla, R. Burnham, and J. Kasinski
HP7 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1995

High-average-power cw Nd:YAG slab laser

U. Wittrock, S. Dong, Q. Lu, and N. Muller
CTuC2 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 1995

Neodym-rod-amplifier above 100 W average output power with high beam quality via SBS mirror

H. J. Eichler, A. Haase, and R. Menzel
CMC3 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 1994

View More...
Select as filters
Select Topics Cancel
Top
       
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All rights reserved, including rights for text and data mining and training of artificial technologies or similar technologies.
Privacy | Terms of Use