Efficiency, Energy, and Power Scaling of Diode-Pumped, Short-Pulse Laser Amplifiers Using Yb-Doped Gain Media

Mathias Siebold,Markus Loeser,Joerg Koerner,Markus Wolf,Joachim Hein,Christoph Wandt,Sandro Klingebiel,Stefan Karsch,U. Schramm

Efficiency, Energy, and Power Scaling of Diode-Pumped, Short-Pulse Laser Amplifiers Using Yb-Doped Gain Media

2010

Mathias Siebold
Markus Loeser
Joerg Koerner
Markus Wolf
Joachim Hein
Christoph Wandt
Sandro Klingebiel
Stefan Karsch
U. Schramm

We present a novel approach to overcome efficiency limitations of nanosecond lasers based on Yb-doped materials. Furthermore, we introduce a combination of bulk and thin-disk design for power scaling of diode-pumped lasers.

Keywords:

Laser power scaling
Tunable laser
Laser pumping
Quantum well
Electronic engineering
Gain
Injection seeder
Amplified spontaneous emission
Diode-pumped solid-state laser
Materials science
Semiconductor laser theory
Optics
Optoelectronics

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