183 W, M2=2.4 Yb:YAG Q-switched laser

Eric C. Honea; Raymond J. Beach; Scott C. Mitchell; Petras V. Avizonis; Petras V. Avizonis

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1999),
paper CMF2

183 W, M²=2.4 Yb:YAG Q-switched laser

Eric C. Honea, Raymond J. Beach, Scott C. Mitchell, and Petras V. Avizonis

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 1999

Baltimore, Maryland United States
23–26 May 1999
ISBN: 1-55752-570-6

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High-Power Nd3+ and Yb3+ Lasers (CMF)

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E. C. Honea, R. J. Beach, S. C. Mitchell, and P. V. Avizonis, "183 W, M2=2.4 Yb:YAG Q-switched laser," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, C. Chang-Hasnain, W. Knox, J. Kafka, and K. Vahala, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1999), paper CMF2.

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Abstract

The small quantum defect of Yb:YAG and the concomitant reduction in thermal lensing and birefringence relative to Nd:YAG makes these lasers attractive as potential high power, high brightness radiation sources, such as required for military and materials processing applications.

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