Abstract
A diode-pumped Yb:YAG laser has been developed with a novel end-pumped zig-zag slab architecture. In cw operation the laser emitted 415 W multimode and 228 W with linear polarization and average M2 beam quality of 1.35.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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