Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 37, Issue 3, 873(2010)
Thermal Characteristic Analysis of Laser Diode Side-Pumped Regenerative Amplifier for kHz Picosecond Laser
The influence of heat effect produced by gain medium and electro-optic crystal working at high repetition rate on a regenerative amplifier is investigated in this paper. Depolarization loss induced by heat generated in Nd∶YAG crystal and thermal absorption of KD*P electro-optic crystal were measured,and a compensating element to compensate the loss of thermal depolarization was used effectively. A BBO Pockel cell for regenerative amplifier was designed by ourself,and effective amplification is obtained. An output pulse energy at 1064 nm is obtained from the picosecond laser pulse regenerative amplifier by laser diode (LD) side-pumped with 3 mJ each pulse and amplification radio of 3×106 at 1 kHz repetition rate.
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Chang Liang, Chen Meng, Li Gang, Ma Yunfeng, Fan Zhongwei, Niu Gang, Yu Jin, Liu Yang, Zhang Xue. Thermal Characteristic Analysis of Laser Diode Side-Pumped Regenerative Amplifier for kHz Picosecond Laser[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2010, 37(3): 873
Category: laser manufacturing
Received: Mar. 26, 2009
Accepted: --
Published Online: Mar. 11, 2010
The Author Email: Chang Liang (constantvip@yahoo.com.cn)