Investigating Thermal Stresses in Quasi-CW Pumped Tm:YLF Laser Crystals

E. H. Bernhardi; E. H. Bernhardi; C. Bollig; L. Harris; M. J. D. Esser; A. Forbes; A. Forbes

doi:10.1364/ASSP.2008.WB11

Advanced Solid-State Photonics
OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2008),
paper WB11
•https://doi.org/10.1364/ASSP.2008.WB11

Investigating Thermal Stresses in Quasi-CW Pumped Tm:YLF Laser Crystals

E. H. Bernhardi, C. Bollig, L. Harris, M. J. D. Esser, and A. Forbes

Advanced Solid-State Photonics 2008

Nara Japan
27–30 January 2008
ISBN: 1-55752-850-0

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E. H. Bernhardi, C. Bollig, L. Harris, M. J. D. Esser, and A. Forbes, "Investigating Thermal Stresses in Quasi-CW Pumped Tm:YLF Laser Crystals," in Advanced Solid-State Photonics, OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2008), paper WB11.

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Abstract

Time dependent thermally induced stresses in an end-pumped Tm:YLF laser rod are investigated numerically. The variation of the maximum incident pump power at the fracture point with respect to pump pulse length is investigated.

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