Numerical designs of 100-kW-class solid-media lasers

Santanu Basu; James Depsky; Rashmi S. Shah; Tom Endo

doi:10.1117/12.273659

2 May 1997 Numerical designs of 100-kW-class solid-media lasers

Santanu Basu, James Depsky, Rashmi S. Shah, Tom Endo

Proceedings Volume 2989, Modeling and Simulation of Higher-Power Laser Systems IV; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.273659
Event: Photonics West '97, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

in this paper, we have reviewed the design principles and numerical formalisms applicable to push the average power limits of state-of-the-art solid-media lasers from typically 1 kilowatt to hundreds of kilowatt. Several device architectures are considered, taking into account utilization of off-the-shelf technology, and inclusion of realistic values of propagation loss. We demonstrate that once the beam propagation problem is addressed properly, laser devices employing solid-media are capable of producing 100 kW to 1 MW of average output power in cw operation at 6 to 12% wall plug efficiency. This will open up applications for solid-media lasers where gaseous and chemical lasers are currently used.

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Santanu Basu, James Depsky, Rashmi S. Shah, and Tom Endo "Numerical designs of 100-kW-class solid-media lasers", Proc. SPIE 2989, Modeling and Simulation of Higher-Power Laser Systems IV, (2 May 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.273659

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