302 W quasi-continuous cascaded diamond Raman laser at 1.5 microns with large brightness enhancement
- 6 August 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 26 (16), 19797-19803
- https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.019797
Abstract
We report a second Stokes diamond Raman laser at 1.49 mu m capable of high power and large-scale-factor brightness enhancement. Using a quasi-continuous 1.06 mu m pump of power 823 W (0.85% duty cycle) and M-2 up to 6.4, a maximum output power of 302 W was obtained with an M-2 = 1.1 providing an overall brightness enhancement factor of 6.0. The pulse length of similar to 210 mu s was selected to ensure operation was representative of steady-state continuous lasing conditions in the diamond bulk. Accompanying theoretical calculations indicate that even more strongly aberrated pumps may be used to efficiently generate high beam quality output and with higher brightness enhancement factors. This diamond-based beam conversion technique addresses needs for high brightness and efficient eye-safe sources using low-brightness 1 mu m pumps and reveals a widely-applicable route to practical high brightness lasers of increased wavelength range. (c) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing AgreementKeywords
Funding Information
- Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) (FA2386-15-1-4075)
- Australian Research Council (ARC) (DP150102054)
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