Thermally-guided fiber-rod laser
Thermally-guided fiber-rod laser
Fiber and bulk lasers form two distinct classes of solid-state laser, both of which have achieved tremendous success in various arenas, but they are not without their limitations. The long, thin geometry of a fiber allows excellent heat dissipation, which combined with a waveguiding structure provides stronger resilience to thermally-induced mode distortions than in bulk lasers, allowing diffraction-limited single-mode operation at multi-kW power levels in continuous-wave mode. However, the threshold for deleterious non-linear effects and laser-induced damage in fibers is generally much lower than bulk systems, owing to very tight beam confinement over a long interaction length, placing stringent limitations on pulsed performance in fibers.
Smith, C.R.
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Simakov, N.
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Hemming, A.
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Clarkson, W.A.
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2017
Smith, C.R.
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Simakov, N.
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Hemming, A.
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Clarkson, W.A.
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Smith, C.R., Simakov, N., Hemming, A. and Clarkson, W.A.
(2017)
Thermally-guided fiber-rod laser.
2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), , Munich, Germany.
25 - 29 Jun 2017.
(doi:10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2017.8086256).
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Abstract
Fiber and bulk lasers form two distinct classes of solid-state laser, both of which have achieved tremendous success in various arenas, but they are not without their limitations. The long, thin geometry of a fiber allows excellent heat dissipation, which combined with a waveguiding structure provides stronger resilience to thermally-induced mode distortions than in bulk lasers, allowing diffraction-limited single-mode operation at multi-kW power levels in continuous-wave mode. However, the threshold for deleterious non-linear effects and laser-induced damage in fibers is generally much lower than bulk systems, owing to very tight beam confinement over a long interaction length, placing stringent limitations on pulsed performance in fibers.
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Published date: 2017
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2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), , Munich, Germany, 2017-06-25 - 2017-06-29
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W.A. Clarkson
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