Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 39, Issue 2, 202001(2012)
Design and Experiment Study of All-Solid Slab Laser Amplifier with Laser Power of 10 kW
For the conduction cooled end-pumped zig-zag slab module, a novel 10 kW high power laser amplifier setup of the all-solid slab laser has been designed. The laser extractive efficiency of the amplifier with various laser power densities and various incidence angles is simulated with a laser amplifier model. The optical-optical conversion efficiency of the laser amplifier is measured in the experiment. The experimental result agrees well with the simulation. A seed laser is amplified in a pre-amplifier stage and two amplifier stages all-solid-state amplifier system with high power and high beam quality to a output power of 11.3 kW, with the beam quality 7.56 times diffraction limit and the runtime over 110 seconds. The optics-optics conversion efficiency is 30%.
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Gao Qingsong, Hu Hao, Pei Zhenping, Tong Lixin, Zhou Tangjian, Tang Chun. Design and Experiment Study of All-Solid Slab Laser Amplifier with Laser Power of 10 kW[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2012, 39(2): 202001
Category: Laser physics
Received: Sep. 20, 2011
Accepted: --
Published Online: Jan. 11, 2012
The Author Email: Qingsong Gao (gaoqs123@tom.com)