Author Affiliations
1Optical Engineering Research Department, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China2School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China3Science and Technology on Solid-State Laser Laboratory, The 11th Research Institute, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Beijing 100015, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Schematics of side-pumped polygonal thin-disk gain medium. (a) Pumping structure; (b) crystal structure; (c) transmission path of pump light
Fig. 2. 3D diagram of beam-shrinking coupling structure and two-dimensional pump light intensity distributions before and after beam shrinking
Fig. 3. Schematics of side pumping at different medium cutting angles. (a) 90°;(b) 45°
Fig. 4. Distribution matrix of volume element absorbed flux in gain medium
Fig. 5. Two-dimensional normalized flux distributions of pump light on different sections in gain media with different cutting angles. (a) 90°;(b) 45°
Fig. 6. Absorption flux distribution curves of pump light in gain media with different cutting angles. (a) Radial;(b) axial
Fig. 7. 2D diagrams of temperature distributions in front face and axial direction of gain media with different cutting angles. (a) 90°;(b) 45°
Fig. 8. Surface temperature distributions of polygonal gain media with different cutting angles . (a) Radial; (b) axial
Fig. 9. Absorption flux distributions of pump light. (a) Simulation result; (b) measurement result of fluorescence distribution
Fig. 10. Experimentally measured surface temperature of crystal (unit: ℃)
Fig. 11. Experimentally measured peak-valley values and RMS values of thermal wavefront distortion of gain medium
Fig. 12. Experimentally measured slope efficiency of laser oscillator
Fig. 13. 3D distribution of beam intensity of oscillator output laser
Parameter | Unit | Value |
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Pump wavelength | nm | 808 | Pump pulse width | μs | 250 | Pump frequency | Hz | 100 | Peak power of single array | W | 1800 | Crystal doping concentration(atomic fraction) | - | 0.3% | Absorption coefficient | cm-1 | 1.4 | Heat sink diameter | mm | 30 | Heat sink thickness | mm | 10 | Circulating water temperature | ℃ | 25 | Ambient temperature | ℃ | 23 |
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Table 1. Parameters of polygon thin-disk gain medium and pump source
Parameter | Unit | Value |
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Refractive index(nd) | - | 1.82 | Thermo-optic coefficient(∂n/∂T) | K-1 | 7.3×10-6 | Thermal expansion coefficient | K-1 | 7.5×10-6 | Rupture stress | kg·cm-2 | 1.3×106-2.6×106 | Thermal conductivity | W·cm-1·K-1 | 0.14 | Density | g·cm-3 | 4.56 | Young's modulus | kg·cm-2 | 3×106 | Poisson's ratio | - | 0.28 | Stokes efficiency | - | 76% | Specific heat capacity | J·kg-1·K-1 | 590 |
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Table 2. Thermodynamic parameters of Nd∶YAG