Optical pump concepts for highly efficient quasi-three-level lasers

  • Efficient quasi-three-level laser operation requires the generation of the highest possible pump rate from a given pump source. We derive the fundamental scaling laws for the pump rate and we extract optimization criteria for pump concepts from these laws. The analysis is then applied to the thin-disk laser. Based on the results, a novel pump concept for thin-disk lasers is proposed, which allows for several tens of pump beam passes and reduces the optical complexity of conventional pump concepts. Furthermore, the beam quality of the pump source is preserved almost completely, facilitating the highest possible pump rate.

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Author:Klaus Albers, Ulrich Wittrock
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-6467
DOI:https://doi.org/10.25974/fhms-646
DOI of first publication:https://doi/org/10.1007/s00340-011-4696-8
Parent Title (German):Appl. Phys. B
Publisher:Springer
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2013/06/06
Year of first Publication:2011
Publishing Institution:FH Münster - University of Applied Sciences
Release Date:2013/06/06
Volume:105
First Page:245
Last Page:254
Institutes:Physikingenieurwesen (PHY)
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
Publication list:Wittrock, Ulrich
Licence (German):License Logo Zweitveroeffentlichung