Method for pumping a Ti:sapphire laser with a stable resonator copper vapor laser
Abstract
An average laser power of more than 3W and a slope efficiency of 20 percent are obtained with a Ti:sapphire laser oscillator pumped by a copper-vapor laser (CVL). A center-hole reflector inside a near-concentric resonator, instead of a dichroic mirror, makes it possible to utilize the stable resonator CVL as a pump source.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- May 1992
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1992ApOpt..31.2734T
- Keywords:
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- Doped Crystals;
- Energy Conversion Efficiency;
- Laser Pumping;
- Metal Vapor Lasers;
- Sapphire;
- Titanium Compounds;
- Copper;
- Solid State Lasers;
- Tunable Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers;
- LASERS: TITANIUM;
- LASERS: COPPER