High Average Power, High Beam-Quality, Unstable-Resonator Slab Laser

J. R. Unternahrer; M. J. Kukla; R. Burnham; J. Kasinski

Advanced Solid State Lasers
OSA Proceedings Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1995),
paper HP7

High Average Power, High Beam-Quality, Unstable-Resonator Slab Laser

J. R. Unternahrer, M. J. Kukla, R. Burnham, and J. Kasinski

Advanced Solid State Lasers 1995

Memphis, Tennessee United States
ISBN: 1-555752-370-3

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J. R. Unternahrer, M. J. Kukla, R. Burnham, and J. Kasinski, "High Average Power, High Beam-Quality, Unstable-Resonator Slab Laser," in Advanced Solid State Lasers, B. Chai and S. Payne, eds., Vol. 24 of OSA Proceedings Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1995), paper HP7.

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Abstract

We report a flashlamp-pumped, zig-zag slab laser oscillator using an unstable resonator with a graded-reflectivity output coupler producing better than 2-times diffraction-limited beam quality at output powers up to 500 W.

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