Abstract
At the Nederlands Centrum voor Laser Research (NCLR) a 1 kHz diode-pumped Nd:YAG Master Oscillator Power Amplifier (MOPA) chain with a Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) Phase Conjugate mirror is designed and operated. A small Brewster angle Nd:YAG slab (2 by 2 by 20 mm) is side pumped with 200 μs diode pulses in a stable oscillator. The oscillator is Q-switched and injection seeded with a commercial diode pumped single frequency CW Nd:YAG laser. The output consists of single-transverse, single-longitudinal mode 25 ns FWHM-pulses at 1064 nm. The oscillator slab is imaged on a square aperture that transmits between 3 and 2 mJ (at 100 and 400 Hz, resp.) The aperture is subsequently imaged four times in the amplifier. The amplifier is a 3 by 6 by 60 mm Brewster angle zig-zag slab, pumped by an 80-bar diode stack with pulses up to 250 μs. After the second pass the light is focused in two consecutive cells containing Freon-113 for wave-front reversal in an oscillator/amplifier-setup with a reflectivity of 60%. The light then passes through the amplifier twice more to produce 20 W (at 400 Hz) of output with near diffraction limited beam quality. To increase the output to 50 W at 1 kHz thermal lensing in the oscillator will be reduced.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 61-65 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Optics communications |
| Volume | 128 |
| Issue number | 1-3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1996 |
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Offerhaus, H. L., Godfried, H. P., & Witteman, W. J. (1996). All solid-state diode pumped Nd:YAG MOPA with stimulated Brillouin phase conjugate mirror. Optics communications, 128(1-3), 61-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-4018(96)00173-3