Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme Gmbh

Jenoptik Laser, Optik, System Gmbh

Bernd Braun

Guenter Hollemann

Ulf Krause

Vladimir Ivanovich Ustyugov

Valeriy Mikhaylovich Mitkin

Boris Grigorievich Malinin

Vladimir Georgievich Pankov

Artur Afanaslovich Mak

Victor Anatollevich Serebryakov

The object in an arrangement for pumping an anisotropic laser crystal is to reduce the influence of the destruction limit of the laser crystal on increased pump power density and, in this connection, to achieve improved beam quality and increased efficiency of a diode-pumped solid state laser. At the same time, the pump volume and cross-sectional area are to be kept as small as possible along a length of the crystal corresponding at least approximately to the absorption length. The arrangement operates with an asymmetric pump beam whose pump beam cross section has different dimensions perpendicular to one another and with a laser beam cross section which is adapted to this asymmetry. That axis of the crystallographic axes of the anisotropic laser crystal in whose direction the highest value of the crystal breaking limit exists is oriented along the greatest temperature gradient in the direction of the smaller dimension of the pump beam cross section.

Arrangement for pumping an anisotropic laser crystal

The inventive module of a light-pumped laser comprises light pump sources, a solid-state active element which is embodied in the form of a plate and provided with a couple of first opposite side faces, the distance therebetween defining the width of the active element for passing a pump radiation therethrough from the pump sources to the active element; a couple of second opposite side faces. The distance therebetween defining the thickness of the active element. which faces are embodied in the plane-parallel manner in order to direct a beam of formed laser radiation in such a way that it enables said beam to pass along the length of the active element in a zigzag manner, undergoing a total internal reflection from the couple of second side faces; a couple of end faces, the distance therebetween defining the length of the active element, and also heal-spreading devices which have a thermal contact with each second face in order So remove beat from the active element.

Module of a solid-state platelet light-pumped laser

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Bernd Braun