Investigation on Performance of High Repetition Diode-Pumped Heat-Capacity Nd:YAG Laser
SUN Zhi-Pei1,2, LI Rui-Ning1, BI Yong3, BO Yong1, YANG Xiao-Dong1,2, CHEN Ya-Hui1,2, GUO Lin1,2, HOU Wei1, ZHANG Hong-Bo1, CUI Da-Fu1, XU Zu-Yan1
1Laboratory of Optical Physics, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080
2Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080
3Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080
Investigation on Performance of High Repetition Diode-Pumped Heat-Capacity Nd:YAG Laser
1Laboratory of Optical Physics, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080
2Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080
3Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080
Abstract: We demonstrate the improvements of both beam quality and thermal depolarization loss of an all-solid-state heat-capacity Nd:YAG laser with repetition rate of 50Hz, for the first time to our best knowledge, compared with the conventional steady-state laser. The beam quality of the heat-capacity laser has been improved three times higher than the conventional steady-state laser within the lasing periods of 60s. The depolarization loss caused by thermo-optical effects which is definitely considerable in steady-state Nd:YAG laser has almost not been observed under heat-capacity operation. Design and operations of the all-solid-state heat capacity Nd:YAG laser with average output power of 25W with repetition 50Hz are also studied with the optical-to-optical efficiency of 33.3%.
SUN Zhi-Pei;LI Rui-Ning;BI Yong;BO Yong;YANG Xiao-Dong;CHEN Ya-Hui;GUO Lin;HOU Wei;ZHANG Hong-Bo;CUI Da-Fu;XU Zu-Yan. Investigation on Performance of High Repetition Diode-Pumped Heat-Capacity Nd:YAG Laser[J]. 中国物理快报, 2005, 22(2): 339-342.
SUN Zhi-Pei, LI Rui-Ning, BI Yong, BO Yong, YANG Xiao-Dong, CHEN Ya-Hui, GUO Lin, HOU Wei, ZHANG Hong-Bo, CUI Da-Fu, XU Zu-Yan. Investigation on Performance of High Repetition Diode-Pumped Heat-Capacity Nd:YAG Laser. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2005, 22(2): 339-342.