Coherent combination of high-power, zigzag slab lasers

被引：230

作者：

Goodno, GD ^{[1
]}

Komine, H ^{[1
]}

McNaught, SJ ^{[1
]}

Weiss, SB ^{[1
]}

Redmond, S ^{[1
]}

Long, W ^{[1
]}

Simpson, R ^{[1
]}

Cheung, EC ^{[1
]}

Howland, D ^{[1
]}

Epp, P ^{[1
]}

Weber, M ^{[1
]}

McClellan, M ^{[1
]}

Sollee, J ^{[1
]}

Injeyan, H ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Northrop Grumman Space Technol, Redondo Beach, CA 90278 USA

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 2006年 / 31卷 / 09期

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D O I：

10.1364/OL.31.001247

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We demonstrate a scalable architecture for a high-power, high-brightness, solid-state laser based on coherent combinations of master oscillator power amplifier chains. A common master oscillator injects a sequence of multikilowatt Nd:YAG zigzag slab amplifiers. Adaptive optics correct the wavefront of each amplified beamlet. The beamlets are tiled side by side and actively phase locked to form a single output beam. The laser produces 19 kW with beam quality < 2X diffraction limited. To the best of our knowledge, this is the brightest cw solid-state laser demonstrated to date. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.

引用

页码：1247 / 1249

页数：3

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