In the past thirty years, high power laser technology has been dominated by Nd:YAG as the gain medium. The pump wavelength of Nd:YAG is 808nm, and the lasing wavelength is 1064nm. It is categorized as four-level laser. The pump wavelength of Yb:YAG is 940nm, and the lasing wavelength is 1030nm. It falls into quasi-three-level laser category. Because Yb:YAG have higher quantum efficiency and less surplus heat, it have the potential to replace Nd:YAG.
The purpose of this study is to develop a multi-reentrant two-mirror Yb:YAG ring laser. In this thesis, we will introduce multi-reentrant two-mirror ring laser. The thermal problem of quasi-three-level laser was overcome by multi-wavelength coating on gain medium and input/output couplers, numerical simulation for mode match, and efficient TE-cooling for laser crystal.
This symmetrical two-mirror figure ¡§8¡¨ ring cavity has the merit of compact, few optical elements, and easy design. The 1030nm output laser of our ring cavity promises to make the design widely applicable to solid-state lasers, such as single longitudinal lasers and mode-locked lasers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0617104-104705 |
| Date | 17 June 2004 |
| Creators | Chang, Yung-Hsin |
| Contributors | Sheng-Lung Huang, Chao-Kuei Lee, Chin-Hsien Wang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0617104-104705 |
| Rights | off_campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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