High Power Laser Diode Arrays for pumping Solid State Laser

High Power Laser Diode Arrays for 2-micron Solid State Coherent Lidars Applications

Laser diode arrays are critical components of any diode-pumped solid state laser systems, constraining their performance and reliability. Laser diode arrays (LDAs) are used as the pump source for energizing the solid state lasing media to generate an intense coherent laser beam with a high spatial and spectral quality. The solid state laser design and the characteristics of its lasing materials...

Integrated Power Conditioning for Laser Diode Arrays

For several years, the Laser Program at LLNL has been designing and building a variety of specialized compact laser systems 1. They offer extremely high energy densities for their size and are primarily used in medical and military applications where a high premium is placed on both reliability and compactness. These systems are based upon a 2 cm-x-2 em liquid cooled wafer (Fig. 1) that support...

Wavefront Compensation of Zig-zag Slab Laser Amplifier under High Power Diode Laser Pumping

A diode-pumped Nd:glass zig-zag slab laser was developed for the purpose of inertial fusion energy (IFE) driver and material processing. In this laser system, we obtained 10.6 J output at 1 Hz repetition rate and 8.4 J at 10 Hz [1]. As a repetition rate increased, the obtainable output energy was limited because of thermal lensing of laser glass induced by high average power laser diode pumping...

Diode laser--pumped solid-state lasers.

Diode laser-pumped solid-state lasers are efficient, compact, all solid-state sources of coherent optical radiation. Major advances in solid-state laser technology have historically been preceded by advances in pumping technology. The helical flash lamps used to pump early ruby lasers were superseded by the linear flash lamp and arc lamp now used to pump neodymium-doped yttrium-aluminum-garnet ...

Mode Locked Laser Diode in a High Power Solid State Regenerative Amplifier and Mount Mechanism DIV