Product Code: ICAL07_507

Diode Laser Pumping of Thin Disk Lasers
Authors:
Holger Schlueter, TRUMPF, Inc.; Farmington CT USA
Viorel Negoita, Trumpf Photonics; Cranbury NJ USA
John Hostetler, Trumpf Photonics; Cranbury NJ USA
David Havrilla, Trumpf Inc., Laser Technology Center; Plymouth Township MI USA
Juergen Stollhof, Trumpf Inc., Laser Technology Center; Plymouth Township MI USA
Alexander Killi, Trumpf Laser Gmbh + Co. Kg; Schramberg Germany
Christian Schmitz, Trumpf Laser Gmbh + Co. Kg; Schramberg Germany
Dirk Sutter, Trumpf Laser Gmbh + Co. Kg; Schramberg Germany
Jochen Kleinbauer, Trumpf Laser Gmbh + Co. Kg; Schramberg Germany
Ruediger Brockmann, Trumpf Laser Gmbh + Co. Kg; Schramberg Germany
Sascha Weiler, Trumpf Laser Gmbh + Co. Kg; Schramberg Germany
Presented at ICALEO 2007

Disk lasers provide the highest brightness conversion factor of commercially available diode pumped solid state lasers.
The geometry of disk lasers is particularly well suited for low cost diode excitation, very high brightness and cw power extraction as well as high power ultra short pulse lasers.
The input beam parameter product (BPP) requirement of commercially deployed disk media lies around 400 mm mrad, while an output BPP of 2 - 8 mm mrad can be guaranteed in the kW range. With such values the brightness conversion factor (ratio of output vs. input power/BPP²) reaches 2e4. A high value for the brightness conversion factor is important as it allows high cw output powers with highly integrated diode pump sources at nearly 100% optical pump launch efficiencies - and therefore at very low cost per Watt.
The large value for the brightness conversion also effectively suppresses non-linear effects and allows achieving ps-pulses with average power levels in excess of 50 Watts.

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