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Title: High average power blue generation from a copper vapour laser pumped titanium sapphire laser
Related: Journal of modern optics, Vol. 45, Issue 6 (1997), p.1185-1197
DOI: 10.1080/09500349808230909
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Date: 1997
Author/Creator: Coutts, D. W
Author/Creator: Wadsworth, W. J
Author/Creator: Webb, C. E
Description: A high power (6.2W) titanium sapphire laser pumped by a high beam quality copper vapour laser (CVL) at 6.2kHz has been demonstrated. The high beam quality copper vapour laser consisted of a small-scale master oscillator and a double-pass power amplifier giving nearly 20 W output with better than 2 times diffraction-limited beam quality. Up to 5.0 W of narrow-band 780nm output was obtained from a ring Ti:sapphire laser when seeded with a 7 mW CW single mode diode laser. Wavelength tuning of an astigmatically compensated Z-cavity Ti:sapphire laser using up to four intracavity Brewster prisms yielded up to 3.3 W output at 920nm, and up to 1.8 W blue output at 460nm when frequency doubled in an intracavity LBO crystal.
Description: 13 page(s)
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

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