Download or read book High-Power CW Diode-Laser-Array-Pumped Solid-State Lasers and Efficient Non-Linear-Optical Frequency Conversion written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goals of this program were: development of high-power, cw diode-laser-array-pumped, Nd:YAG lasers, and efficient nonlinear frequency conversion of their output. Two minislab laser heads constructed as a single high power dual-head oscillator (96W, multi-mode) were operated separately to support Q-switched and cw nonlinear frequency conversion studies and single-frequency injection-locking studies and the start of cw amplifier research. A cw singly resonant optical parametric oscillator (SRO) utilizing bulk periodically poled LiNbO3 (PPLN) for tunable mid-IR radiation using the Q-switched laser as the pump was developed, and SHG output at 532 nm was increased from 800 mW average power (15 KHz rep rate) to 1300 mW average power (8.4 KHz rep rate). Coherent laser radar with high-power, high-coherence sources was pursued through a highly-coherent master oscillator cw power amplifier approach. We operated one laser head as a (1OW TEM00) oscillator and the second laser head as a triple-pass amplifier achieving 26 W TEM00 output. More extensive experiments on cw diode-laser pumped laser amplifiers for high-power, high-coherence sources were carried out to test the ability of theoretical modeling to predict amplifier output power.