Abstract
Optical Silicon Carbide is proposed for face cooling in bulk solid-state lasers instead of currently used diamond. First demonstrations resulted in 24% slope efficiency of the SiC-cooled Nd:YAG laser despite double SiC/YAG interface intracavity loss.
© 2006 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
James A Piper
CThU1 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 2006
T. Dascalu and T. Taira
JThC31 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 2006
M. Sheik-Bahae, C.W. Hoyt, B. Imangholi, R.I. Epstein, B.C. Edwards, A. Gibbs, and J.E. Anderson
QFD2 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO:FS) 2001