Title

Modeling Of High Power Solid-State Slab Lasers

Keywords

High-power; Lasers; Slab; Solid-state; YAG

Abstract

We present practical modeling for edged-pumped high power solid-state slab lasers. Both analytic and ray tracing methods were used to analyze the distributions of absorbed pump power using real broad spectrum diode laser pump sources. The resulting thermal and stress distributions were calculated with finite element analysis. Our analyses include the temperature dependence of the gain medium's thermal conductivity and expansion coefficient. Nd:YAG and Yb:YAG were then compared for use as gain media for high power solid state slab laser.

Publication Date

9-29-2003

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

4968

Number of Pages

1-10

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.501644

Socpus ID

0141493761 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0141493761

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