Method and apparatus for generating and employing a high density

Details Method and apparatus for generating and employing a high density Method and apparatus for generating and employing a high density

1994-06-20

1996-12-31

Bovernick, Rodney B.

Coherent light generators

Particular beam control device

Q-switch

372 25, 372 70, 372 75, H01S 3091

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055901417

ABSTRACT:
A laser system uses a broad-area high-power diode laser in cooperation with a nonimaging concentrator, or an unstable resonator semiconductor laser, to end pump a relatively thin, solid-state, highly doped lasant. The laser system generates a very high density of excited ions in the lasant mode volume to produce high peak power pulses having comparable magnitudes over a wide range of pulse repetition frequencies.

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