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15 February 2011 From multi kW continuous wave to multi MW femtosecond pulses: recent developments exploiting disk laser technology
Sascha Weiler, Marco Holzer, Paul Graham, Juergen Stollhof, David Havrilla
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Disk lasers combine high efficiency, excellent beam quality, high average and/or peak power with moderate cost and high reliability at multiple wavelengths, ranging from the infrared over the green to the ultraviolet. The demonstrated infrared average powers range from tens of kW in CW operation over >1 kW in ns pulses to >100 W in ps pulses and > 70 W in fs pulses. Wavelength conversion for nearly all modes of operation, e.g. 700 W@515nm in ns pulses, enlarges the fields of applications, making the disk technology today's most versatile laser platform.
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Sascha Weiler, Marco Holzer, Paul Graham, Juergen Stollhof, and David Havrilla "From multi kW continuous wave to multi MW femtosecond pulses: recent developments exploiting disk laser technology", Proc. SPIE 7912, Solid State Lasers XX: Technology and Devices, 791209 (15 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873559
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KEYWORDS
Disk lasers

Pulsed laser operation

Continuous wave operation

Laser applications

Picosecond phenomena

Resonators

Laser resonators

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