High power Nd:YLF solid state lasers

Details High power Nd:YLF solid state lasers High power Nd:YLF solid state lasers

1990-09-26

1992-09-15

Epps, Georgia Y.

Coherent light generators

Particular resonant cavity

Plural cavities

372 33, 372 68, 372 70, 372 71, 372106, H01S 3082

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ABSTRACT:
A high power TEM.sub.00 mode Nd:YLF solid state laser includes at least two pumped Nd:YLF solid state rods in series within a laser resonator. A spherical lens may be incorporated within the resonator as required for establishing, in concert with the rods and resonator end mirrors, a large intracavity beam diameter at the position of the rods. A cylindrical lens may be provided to compensate for astigmatic thermal focusing of the Nd:YLF rods, or else the rods may be used in pairs, in which case the rods are rotated by 90.degree. about the laser axis with respect to each other, and a half-wave plate is inserted between the rods of each pair to maintain oscillation at a single wavelength.

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Abstract WL15 "High Power cv Nd:YLF laser with dynamic compensation of the thermal lensing astigmatism" Annual Meeting OSA, Oct. 16, 1989.

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