Abstract

We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first intra-cavity pumped Yb:YAG thin-disk laser. It operates at 1050.7 nm with a quantum defect of just 1.74% due to pumping at 1032.4 nm. Low absorption of the pump light at the pump wavelength of 1032.4 nm is compensated for by placing the disk inside the resonator of another Yb:YAG thin-disk laser which is diode-pumped at 940 nm. The intra-cavity pumped laser has an output power of 10.3 W and a slope efficiency of 8.3%.

© 2015 Optical Society of America

High-power Yb:YAG thin-disk laser with 80% efficiency pumped at the zero-phonon line

Abdullah Alabbadi, Mikhail Larionov, and Florian Fink
Opt. Lett. 47(1) 202-205 (2022)

Nonlinear dynamics in intra-cavity pumped thin-disk lasers

Sarah Trinschek, Christian Vorholt, and Ulrich Wittrock
Opt. Express 29(4) 5755-5773 (2021)

Efficient 2122  nm Ho:YAG laser intra-cavity pumped by a narrowband-diode-pumped Tm:YAG laser

Haizhou Huang, Jianhong Huang, Huagang Liu, Jinhui Li, Shutao Dai, Wen Weng, and Wenxiong Lin
Opt. Lett. 41(17) 3952-3955 (2016)

High-power 100 W Kerr-lens mode-locked ring-cavity femtosecond Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator

Heyan Liu, Hongwen Xuan, Hongshan Chen, Jingjie Hao, Fan Wu, Shenao Zhang, Qing Wang, Lisong Yan, and Jinwei Zhang
Opt. Lett. 49(5) 1157-1160 (2024)

Adjustable and stable beam profile generation in a Yb:YAG thin-disk laser

Enmao Song, Tianrui Dai, Guangzhi Zhu, Hailin Wang, Kozlov Aleksei, and Xiao Zhu
Opt. Lett. 45(23) 6550-6553 (2020)