{"title":"Diode-pumped, High-Power CW and Modelocked Nd:YLF Lasers","authors":"K. Snell, Dicky Lee, K. Wall, P. Moulton","doi":"10.1364/ASSL.2000.MA9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Using a side-pumped, Nd:YLF slab laser design, we have obtained a TEM00-mode output power > 25 W with > 43% optical efficiency. As an amplifier of a SESAM-mode-locked laser, the same design has allowed us to generate, with 4.5-ps pulses at a 100-MHz rate, > 15 W of average power.","PeriodicalId":376665,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Solid State Lasers","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"13","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advanced Solid State Lasers","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ASSL.2000.MA9","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Using a side-pumped, Nd:YLF slab laser design, we have obtained a TEM00-mode output power > 25 W with > 43% optical efficiency. As an amplifier of a SESAM-mode-locked laser, the same design has allowed us to generate, with 4.5-ps pulses at a 100-MHz rate, > 15 W of average power.