2016 Zig-zag active-mirror laser with cryogenic Yb3+YAGYAG composite ceramics.pdfVIP

Zig-zag active-mirror laser with cryogenic Yb3+ :YAG/YAG composite ceramics 1,* 2 2 1 1 Hiroaki Furuse, Junji Kawanaka, Noriaki Miyanaga, Taku Saiki, Kazuo Imasaki, 1 3 3 1 Masayuki Fujita, Kenji Takeshita, Shinya Ishii, and Yasukazu Izawa 1Institute for Laser Technology, 2-6 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan 2Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, Japan 3Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, 16-5 Konan 2-Chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan *furuse-h@ile.osaka-u.ac.jp Abstract: We report on a novel amplifier configuration concept for a 10 kW laser system using a zig-zag optical path based on a cryogenic Yb:YAG Total-Reflection Active-Mirror TRAM laser. The laser material is a compact composite ceramic, in which three Yb:YAG TRAMs are combined in series to increase the output power. Output powers of up to 214 W with a slope efficiency of 63% have been demonstrated for CW operation, even at 2 a quite low pump intensity of less than 170 W/cm . Further scaling could achieve output powers of more than 10 kW. ?2011 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 140.3480 Lasers, diode-pumped; 140.3580 Lasers, solid-state. References and links 1. D. Harvilla, and R. Brockmann, ““Latest advances in high power disk lasers,” Proc. SPIE 7578, 75780c 2010 . 2. V. Gapontsev, V. Fomin, and A. Yusim, “Recent progress in scaling high power fiber lasers at IPG Photonics,” presented at the 22nd Annual Solid State and Diode Laser Technology Review, Newton, Massachusetts USA, June 29-July 2, 2009 . 3. S. J. McNauht, H. Komine, S. B. Weiss, R. Simpson, A. M. F. Johnson, J. Machan, C. P. Asman, M. Weber, G. C. Jones, M. M. Valley, A. Jankevics, D. Burchman, M. McClellan, J. Sollee, J. Marmo, and H. Injeyan, “100 kW Coherently Combined Slab MOPAs,” in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Technical Digest Optical Society of America, 2009 , paper CThA1. 4. A. Giesen, and J. Speiser, “Fifteen Years of Work on Thin-Dis