Development of ceramic laser host materials.

Jasbinder Sanghera; Woohong Kim; Guillermo Villalobos; Brandon Shaw; Colin Baker; Jesse Frantz; Michael Hunt; Bryan Sadowski; Ishwar Aggarwal

doi:10.1117/12.903736

5 October 2011 Development of ceramic laser host materials.

Jasbinder Sanghera, Woohong Kim, Guillermo Villalobos, Brandon Shaw, Colin Baker, Jesse Frantz, Michael Hunt, Bryan Sadowski, Ishwar Aggarwal

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Proceedings Volume 8187, Technologies for Optical Countermeasures VIII; 81870G (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.903736
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

Ceramic laser materials have come a long way since the first demonstration of lasing in 1964. Improvements in powder synthesis and ceramic sintering as well as novel ideas have led to notable achievements. These include the first Nd:YAG ceramic laser in 1995, breaking the 1 KW mark in 2002 and then the remarkable demonstration of more than 100 KW output power from a YAG ceramic laser system in 2009. Additional developments have included highly doped microchip lasers, ultrashort pulse lasers, novel materials such as sesquioxides, fluoride ceramic lasers, selenide ceramic lasers in the 2 to 3 μm region, composite ceramic lasers for better thermal management, and single crystal lasers derived from polycrystalline ceramics. This paper highlights some of these notable achievements.

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Jasbinder Sanghera, Woohong Kim, Guillermo Villalobos, Brandon Shaw, Colin Baker, Jesse Frantz, Michael Hunt, Bryan Sadowski, and Ishwar Aggarwal "Development of ceramic laser host materials.", Proc. SPIE 8187, Technologies for Optical Countermeasures VIII, 81870G (5 October 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.903736

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