Abstract
The goal of the DAPKL program is to scale high brightness, diode pumped solid state lasers to the kilowatt average power level by developing a 10 J, 100 Hz system with a beam quality that is si.5 x D.L. The approach uses the phase conjugated master oscillator power amplifier (PC MOPA) architecture which has been used to obtain near diffraction limited beam quality at 100 W average powers. The energy per pulse is scaled by scaling the size of Nd:YAG slabs through diffusion bonding.
© 1994 Optical Society of America
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