High power tungstate-crystal Raman laser operating in the strong thermal lensing regime

Aaron McKay; Ondrej Kitzler; Richard P. Mildren

doi:10.1364/OE.22.000707

High power tungstate-crystal Raman laser operating in the strong thermal lensing regime

Aaron McKay, Ondrej Kitzler, Richard P. Mildren

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We report an investigation into a double metal tungstate Raman laser when pumped at elevated average powers. Potassium gadolinium tungstate (KGW) was placed in an external cavity configured for second-Stokes output and pumped at pulse repetition rate of 38 kHz with up to 46 W of average power. For output powers above 3 W, we observe preferential excitation of Hermite-Gaussian transverse modes whose order in the X₁' principal direction of the thermal expansion tensor scales linearly with Raman power. We deduce that strong astigmatic thermal lensing is induced in the Raman crystal with a negative component in the X₁' direction. At maximum pump power, 8.3 W of output power was obtained at a conversion efficiency of 18%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	707-715
Number of pages	9
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	22
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.000707
Publication status	Published - 13 Jan 2014

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