Solid state laser disk amplifer architecture: the normal-incidence stack

US6847673B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Regents of the University of California · US

Inventors

• C. Brent Dane · Livermore, US
• Georg F. Albrecht · Livermore, US
• Mark D. Rotter · San Ramon, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 21, 2002
• Grant date: Jan 25, 2005
• Expiry date: Jun 21, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01S3/0604
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Normal incidence stack architecture coupled with the development of diode array pumping enables the power/energy per disk to be increased, a reduction in beam distortions by orders of magnitude, a beam propagation no longer restricted to only one direction of polarization, and the laser becomes so much more amendable to robust packaging.