High average power active-mirror amplifier
Abstract
Operation of the first high average power Nd:glass active-mirror amplifier, a scalable laser device that may be used to configure solid-state laser systems with high average power output into the kilowatt regime, is reported. An extractable average power of over 120 W was achieved at the device laser material fracture limit, and at a repetition rate of 5 Hz.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- March 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.25.000612
- Bibcode:
- 1986ApOpt..25..612B
- Keywords:
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- Glass Lasers;
- High Power Lasers;
- Laser Outputs;
- Neodymium Lasers;
- Optical Pumping;
- Power Amplifiers;
- Mirrors;
- Solid State Lasers;
- Temperature Gradients;
- Lasers and Masers;
- LASERS: NEODYMIUM;
- LASER AMPLIFIERS;
- ADAPTIVE OPTICS