High-Power High Beam Quality Narrow-Linewidth Quasicontinuous Wave Microsecond Pulse 1064-nm Nd:YAG Amplifier

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作者
Guo, Chuan [1 ,3 ]
Bian, Qi [1 ,3 ]
Xu, Chang [4 ]
Zuo, Junwei [1 ,2 ]
Bo, Yong [1 ,2 ]
Wang, Zhimin [1 ,2 ]
Shen, Yu [1 ,2 ]
Zong, Nan [1 ,2 ]
Gao, Hongwei [1 ,2 ]
Liu, Yang [1 ,2 ]
Cui, Dafu [1 ]
Peng, Qinjun [1 ,2 ]
Xu, Zuyan [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Tech Inst Phys & Chem, Key Lab Solid State Laser, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
[2] Chinese Acad Sci, TIPC, Key Lab Funct Crystal & Laser Technol, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100180, Peoples R China
[4] Harbin Inst Technol, Natl Key Lab Sci & Technol Tunable Laser, Harbin 150080, Peoples R China
来源
IEEE PHOTONICS JOURNAL | 2016年 / 8卷 / 06期
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Diode pumped lasers; laser amplifiers; pulse propagation; solid-state laser; LASER GUIDE STARS; NM; GENERATION; SUPPRESSION; RADIATION; SPIKING;
D O I
10.1109/JHOT.2016.2630850
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We demonstrated a high average power, high beam quality, narrow linewidth, quasicontinuous wave ( QCW) diode-pumped 1064-nm Nd: YAG amplifier. A narrow-linewidth QCW pulse Nd: YAG oscillator was employed as the seed laser, providing a maximum average power of 53.4 W at a pulse repetition frequency of 500 Hz and pulse width of 108 mu s with a beam quality factor M-2 = 1.21. After that, a two-stage double-pass Nd: YAG amplifier was performed. The amplifier delivers a maximum output power of 238 W with a linewidth of 0.4 pm and a tunable range of 119.3 pm. The beam quality was measured to be M-2 = 1.65. To the best of our knowledge, this represents the highest average power and the highest brightness for a narrow-linewidth QCW microsecond pulse 1064-nm laser.
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