scholarly journals Theoretical and experimental investigations on wavefront distortion and thermal-stress induced birefringence in a laser diode pumped helium gas-cooled multislab Nd:glass laser amplifier

2015 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 087801
Author(s):  
Huang Wen-Fa ◽  
Li Xue-Chun ◽  
Wang Jiang-Feng ◽  
Lu Xing-Hua ◽  
Zhang Yu-Qi ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Wenfa Huang ◽  
Jiangfeng Wang ◽  
Xinghua Lu ◽  
Tingrui Huang ◽  
Jiangtao Guo ◽  
...  

We demonstrate a laser diode end-pumped helium gas-cooled multislab Nd:glass laser amplifier. The design and thermal management of the proposed laser amplifier are discussed. The thermally induced wavefront aberration of the slabs was also measured and compared with simulation results. A small-signal single-pass longitudinal gain of 1.8 was measured with a pump energy of 7.3 J. With an injected seed energy of 0.6 mJ, the output energy from the amplifier reached 0.5 J at 0.2 Hz and 0.43 J at 0.5 Hz in a multipass extraction geometry, thus demonstrating the feasibility of diode-pumped, high-energy lasers with direct gas cooling.


1992 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 1010-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.W. Hughes ◽  
M.W. Phillips ◽  
J.R.M. Barr ◽  
D.C. Hanna

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuqi Zhang ◽  
Jiangfeng Wang ◽  
Xinghua Lu ◽  
Wenfa Huang ◽  
Xuechun Li

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshinori Kato ◽  
Masahiro Terada ◽  
Hiromitsu Kiriyama ◽  
Masanobu Yamanaka ◽  
Yasukazu Izawa ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (8A) ◽  
pp. 5338-5341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norikatsu Mio ◽  
Takafumi Ozeki ◽  
Kosuke Machida ◽  
Shigenori Moriwaki

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