{"title":"Resonator design considerations for high-power TEM/sub 00/ operation of a Nd:YAG laser at 1.3 /spl mu/m end pumped by a diode bar","authors":"M. Kern, W. Clarkson, D. Hanna","doi":"10.1109/CLEO.1997.603470","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Using a novel resonator approach which reduces the beam distortion resulting from strong thermally-induced aberrations, we have obtained ~3.2W of TEM00 output at 1.3µm from a Nd:YAG laser end-pumped by a 20W diode-bar.","PeriodicalId":173652,"journal":{"name":"CLEO '97., Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics","volume":"2020 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CLEO '97., Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.1997.603470","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Using a novel resonator approach which reduces the beam distortion resulting from strong thermally-induced aberrations, we have obtained ~3.2W of TEM00 output at 1.3µm from a Nd:YAG laser end-pumped by a 20W diode-bar.