High-power Yb:YAG rod oscillators and amplifiers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3265, Issue , 1998, Pages 100-105

  Sumida, David S ^a   Bruesselbach, Hans ^a   Byren, Robert W ^a   Mangir, Metin ^a   Reeder, Robin ^a  

^a Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

Author keywords

Cw diode pumping; InGaAs laser diodes; Master oscillator; Power amplifier; Side pumping; Solid state lasers; Yb:YAG

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POWER AMPLIFIERS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

MASTER OSCILLATORS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0032224385     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.308662     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. Low-heat high-power scaling using InGaAs-diode-pumped Yb:YAG lasers
2. High power Yb:YAG lasers
3. CW and Q-switched performance of a diode end-pumped Yb:YAG laser
4. Advanced tunability and highpower TEM00-operation of the Yb:YAG thin disc laser
5. Heat generation in Nd:YAG and Yb:YAG
6. 69-W-average-power Yb:YAG Laser
7. Scaling Yb:YAG lasers to kilowatt powers
8. Side-pumped Yb:YAG rod laser performance