TY  - JOUR
A1  - Albers, Klaus
A1  - Wittrock, Ulrich
T1  - Optical pump concepts for highly efficient quasi-three-level lasers
JF  - Appl. Phys. B
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2011
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-6467
VL  - 105
SP  - 245
EP  - 254
PB  - Springer
ER  -