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Giesen, A., Hugel, H., Voss, A., Wittig, K., Brauch, U. and Opower, H. (1994) Disk laser. Applied Physics, B58, 365. doi:10.1007/BF01081875

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• TITLE: High power disk laser

  AUTHORS: Victor V. Apollonov

  KEYWORDS: Disk Laser; Efficient Porous Cooling;Amplified Spontaneous Emission; “Zig-Zag” Geometry; Electrical Discharge CO2-Lasers Ablation; Pulse-Periodical Mode of Operation

  JOURNAL NAME: Natural Science, Vol.5 No.5, May 28, 2013

  ABSTRACT: The mono-module disk laser concept is an effective design for diode-pumped solid-state lasers, which allows the realization of lasers with super-high output power, having very good efficiency and also excellent beam quality. Since the first demonstration of the principle in 1964 the output power of mono-module disk has been increased to the level of few kW in continuous wave (CW) mode of operation. “Zig-Zag” disk laser geometry does not look like as a perspective one for further output parameters growing. The scaling laws for mono-module disk laser design show that the limits for CW mode of operation are far beyond 100 kW for output power and the energy can be higher than 100 J in pulsed mode of operation. Due to the efficient porous cooling technology and possibility of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) suppression the operation of the mono-module disk laser geometry is possible in CW and pulse-periodical (P-P) modes at extremely high output power.