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Efficient high beam quality copper vapor laser MOPA system with miniature master oscillator

Daniel J. W. Brown, David W. Coutts

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    Abstract

    The successful operation of a high-beam-quality 'miniature' copper vapor laser (CVL) designed as master oscillator for a 20-W power amplifier is reported. When the miniature CVL was amplified by a single pass through a nominally 20-W amplifier, 22.6 W of diffraction-limited output was obtained at 7 kHz for a total electrical input of 4 kW. The CVL MOPA system with miniature CVL master oscillator was also capable of generating significant high beam quality power at elevated pulse repetition frequency. Further performance characteristics of miniature CVL-MOPA systems are presented, as well as nonlinear frequency conversion of the output of these systems.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationConference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting
    Place of PublicationWashington, DC
    PublisherOptical Society of America (OSA)
    Pages1-1
    Number of pages1
    Volume8
    ISBN (Print)0780319710
    Publication statusPublished - 1994
    EventProceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - Anaheim, CA, USA
    Duration: 8 May 199413 May 1994

    Other

    OtherProceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
    CityAnaheim, CA, USA
    Period8/05/9413/05/94

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