Abstract
Despite their extremely high thermal conductivity and low thermal expansion coefficients, thermal effects in diamond are still observed in high-power diamond Raman lasers, which proposes a challenge to their power scaling. Here, the dynamics of temperature gradient and stress distribution in the diamond are numerically simulated under different pump conditions. With a pump radius of 100 µm and an absorption power of up to 200 W (corresponding to the output power in kilowatt level), the establishment period of thermal steady-state in a millimeter diamond is only 50 µs, with the overall thermal-induced deformation of the diamond being less than 2.5 µm. The relationship between the deformation of diamond and the stability of the Raman cavity is also studied. These results provide a method to better optimize the diamond Raman laser performance at output powers up to kilowatt-level.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1572 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-12 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Nanomaterials |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2021 |
Bibliographical note
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- Diamond
- FVM-FEM
- High-power
- Raman laser
- Thermal analysis