Aminpour A, Pflaum C (2014)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2014
Publisher: SPIE
Edited Volumes: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
City/Town: Bellingham
Book Volume: 8959
Pages Range: 1-9
Conference Proceedings Title: Solid State Lasers XXXIII: Technology and Devices
Event location: San Francisco, CA
URI: http://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/Paper/10.1117/12.2034282
DOI: 10.1117/12.2034282
We present an edge-pumped Yb:YAG /YAG trapezoid-shape thin disk laser with slanted faces of 30 degree. The crystal consist of a 0.2-mm-thick Yb:YAG crystal as a gain medium and a 1.3-mm-thick un-doped YAG crystal bonded on the gain medium. The crystal is pumped from four sides in such a way that pump light trapped inside the crystal after total reflections. To study this configuration, we performed a detailed simulation of our delivery system using our laser simulation code ASLDTM software. The simulation include Monte-Carlo ray tracing of pump light and 3-dimentional opto-mechanical analysis. Furthermore, we calculate the optical path difference of the crystal respect to the output power and relating beam quality using Dynamic Multimode Analysis (DMA) method. Finally, we demonstrated that the OPD inside the crystal increased from -3613.74mm to -542.85mm in the output power range of 33W to 250W. © 2014 SPIE.
APA:
Aminpour, A., & Pflaum, C. (2014). Optical path difference of slanted edge diode-pumped Yb:YAG/YAG thin-disk laser. In Solid State Lasers XXXIII: Technology and Devices (pp. 1-9). San Francisco, CA: Bellingham: SPIE.
MLA:
Aminpour, Ahmed, and Christoph Pflaum. "Optical path difference of slanted edge diode-pumped Yb:YAG/YAG thin-disk laser." Proceedings of the Solid State Lasers XXIII: Technology and Devices, San Francisco, CA Bellingham: SPIE, 2014. 1-9.
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