High-Power Near Diffraction-Limited and Single-Frequency Operation of Yb:YAG Thin Disc Laser

1 January 1996

proceedings article
Published by Optica Publishing Group

p. YL2
https://doi.org/10.1364/assl.1996.yl2

Abstract

Operation of Yb:YAG thin disc lasers with output powers as high as 84 W and total optical efficiencies of up to 64 % as well as single-frequency operation with Pout = 19W, ηopt = 41%. and M2 = 1.09 is presented.

Keywords

SINGLE FREQUENCY OPERATION
YAG THIN
THIN DISC
DISC LASERS

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Heat generation in Nd:YAG and Yb:YAG
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1993

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