Deutsches Zentrum Fuer Luft-und Raumfahrt E.v

Deutsches Zentrum Fur Luft-und Raumfahrt E.v.

Jens Mende

Adolf Giesen

Gerhard Spindler

Jochen Speiser

Thomas Hall

A laser amplifier system is provided which comprises a resonator with optical resonator elements which determine a course of a resonator radiation field which propagates along an optical axis and at least one laser-active medium (LM). The resonator is designed as a split resonator and has a first resonator section which extends from a first virtual plane of separation and a second resonator section which extends from a second virtual plane of separation. The resonator sections are dimensioned optically such that the resonator radiation field has radiation field states corresponding to the same resonator modes in each of the virtual planes of separation. An amplifying unit optically independent of the resonator is arranged between the first and the second virtual planes of separation. The amplifying unit comprises the at least one laser-active medium and couples the radiation field states in a neutral manner with respect to the resonator modes.

Laser amplifier system

In order to improve a solid-state laser, in particular a solid-state disc laser, comprising a resonator () that defines a resonator radiation field () and at least one solid-state disc () with the resonator radiation field () passing through it, in such a manner that the thermal lens effect can be at least substantially compensated, it is proposed that in reflection the resonator radiation field () strikes at least one first adaptive mirror unit (), with which a distortion of the resonator radiation field () as a result of a thermal lens effect of the at least one solid-state disc () can be substantially compensated. An adaptive mirror unit () can be configured by a heated () glass sheet () with an HR layer (), for example, or by a pressure-induced deformation by means a fluid () in a space (), which is enclosed with the mirror ().

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Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany

Jens Mende