High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Volume. 6, Issue 4, 04000e62(2018)

Overview of ytterbium based transparent ceramics for diode pumped high energy solid-state lasers

Samuel Paul David, Venkatesan Jambunathan, Antonio Lucianetti, and Tomas Mocek
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  • HiLASE Centre , Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences , Za Radnicí 828/5 , 25241 , Dolní Břežany , Czech Republic
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    (a) Composite ceramic gain media used to achieve an output power of 520 W in microchip laser. (b) An output power of 520 W using YAG/Yb:YAG composite gain media. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [33].
    (a) Schematic of AMA concept used for LUCIA laser. (b) Crystalline and ceramic composites used in LUCIA laser to deliver an energy of 14 J. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [18].
    Multi-slab amplifier design adopted for DiPOLE laser systems. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [52].
    One of the ceramic discs used in DiPOLE-10 to generate an energy of 10 J at 10 Hz.
    Yb:YAG ceramic slabs used to achieve 100 J average energy per pulse in HiLASE.
    Output energy of 100 J against the pump energy. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [20].
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    Samuel Paul David, Venkatesan Jambunathan, Antonio Lucianetti, Tomas Mocek. Overview of ytterbium based transparent ceramics for diode pumped high energy solid-state lasers[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2018, 6(4): 04000e62

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    Special Issue: HIGH ENERGY DENSITY PHYSICS AND HIGH POWER LASERS

    Received: Jul. 25, 2018

    Accepted: Nov. 9, 2018

    Published Online: Dec. 27, 2018

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    DOI:10.1017/hpl.2018.58

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