Abstract

Over the past few years our group¹ and others² have been actively developing novel intracavity solid-state Raman lasers as alternative high-average-power, highbrightness sources to be utilized by the remote sensing and adaptive optics communities. Intracavity solid-state Raman lasers offer an elegant means of efficiently generating high-average-power, near diffraction-limited, pulse-compressed emission in useful spectral regions. In this talk, we review the spatial, temporal, and spectral characteristics of high-average-power intracavity solid-state Raman lasers as well as recently developed design and modeling techniques. Experimental results of Raman lasers developed in our laboratory are presented.

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