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The high-average-power diode-pumped solid-state laser is one of the main research directions in the field of international laser technology, and has major applications in the fields like space exploration, precise detection, fusion research, etc. Under high-power pumping conditions, the conventional rods or slabs are not conducive to effectively removing waste heat. And the thermal effect causes the quality of the laser beam to deteriorate, which limits the further increase of the output power. In this article, the polygonal Nd: YAG thin disk is taken as a gain medium for the laser, and experiments verify that the side pumping method can obtain a higher output power of the all-solid-state pulsed laser while ensuring high beam quality. The gain medium is a regular pentagonal Nd: YAG thin disk with a side-cut-angle of 45°, the crystal thickness is 1.5 mm, and the diameter of the inscribed circle on the front face is 16 mm. Five laser diode arrays are placed symmetrically around the disk, and the pump surfaces are parallel to the sides of the disk. The pump laser propagates along the zigzag path between the upper and lower surface of the disk, thus improving the absorptive efficiency and pump uniformity. Through the optimization study of its gain characteristics and optical characteristics, the high-efficiency high-uniform pumping is achieved. Along the pump light coupling transmission path, the fast-axis collimator is used to control the beams in the fast-axis direction to be nearly parallel, and the large-area pump light is compressed through the coupling structure of cylindrical lens and light guide to match the size of the thin disk, and the pump coupling efficiency measured experimentally is 97%. When the Nd3+ doping concentration in the crystal is 0.3 at.%, the gain medium absorptive efficiency is 87%, and the root mea squared pump absorptive distribution uniformity in the gain medium is 3.21%. The fluorescence distribution of the gain medium is in good agreement with the simulated data. When the pump energy is 2.2 J, a laser output with an energy of 0.85 J is obtained, and optical-to-optical efficiency and slope efficiency are 38.8% and 40.1%, respectively. The single pulse energy stability is 2.7%(RMS) at 1 Hz frequency. In the stable cavity, the beam quality β - factor is measured to be about 10.
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Keywords:
- thin disk laser /
- side pump /
- pump uniformity
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图 1 侧面泵浦多边形薄片激光器结构示意图 (a)结构俯视图; (b)局部放大图
Figure 1. Schematic diagram of side-pumped polygonal thin-disk laser structure: (a) Top view of the structure; (b) partial enlarged view
图 2 晶体内被吸收的泵浦光强的二维和三维分布
Figure 2. 2-D and 3-D distributions of the absorbed pump laser in the crystal.
图 3 增益介质内荧光分布
Figure 3. Fluorescence distribution in disk.
图 4 薄片激光器实验装置图
Figure 4. Experiment setup of thin disk laser.
图 5 不同输出耦合镜透射率下输出能量随泵浦能量的变化关系
Figure 5. Output energy vs pump energy under different transmittance of output coupling mirror.
图 6 激光器输出光斑
Figure 6. Output laser beam.
图 7 不同脉冲重复频率下薄片激光器输出能量
Figure 7. Output energy of thin disk laser under different pulse repetition rates
图 8 薄片激光器输出能量稳定性
Figure 8. Output energy stability of thin disk laser.
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[1] Coyle D B, Stysley P R, Poulios D, Fredrickson R M, Kay R B, Cory K C 2014 Opt. Laser Technol. 63 13
Google Scholar
[2] 周寿桓, 赵鸿, 唐小军 2009 中国激光 36 1605
Google Scholar
Zhou S H, Zhao H, Tang X J 2009 Chin. J. Lasers 36 1605
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Cai Y F 2009 M.S. Thesis (Beijing: Beijing University of Technology) (in Chinese)
[14] Gao S, Liu H, Wang D S, Gong M L 2009 Opt. Express 24 21837
[15] Lera R, Valle-Brozas F, Torres-Peiro S, Ruiz-De-La-Cruz A, Galan M, Bellido P, Seimetz M, Benlloch J M, Roso L 2016 Appl. Optics 55 9573
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
Zhang S J, Zhou S H, Lü H C, Tang X J, Guo L N, Wang C, Du T, Li F 2007 Infrared Laser Eng. 36 505
Google Scholar
[17] Dascalu T, Taira T 2006 Opt. Express 14 671
[18] 柳强, 巩马理, 潘圆圆, 李晨 2004 物理学报 53 2159
Google Scholar
Liu Q, Gong M L, Pan Y Y, Li C 2004 Acta Phys. Sin. 53 2159
Google Scholar
[19] Liu Q, Fu X, Ma D, Yan X, He F, Huang L, Gong M, Wang D 2007 Laser Phys. Lett 4 712
[20] Aminpour H, Pflaum C 2014 Pro. of SPIE 8959 89591V
[21] Grigore O V, Croitoru G, Dascalu T, Pavel N 2017 Opt. Laser Technol. 94 86
Google Scholar
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