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Efficient Operation of a Nd,Cr:GSGG Slab Laser

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Abstract

The total-internal-reflection, face-pumped solid state laser (or, simply, the slab laser) has been under development for nearly two decades, since it was first demonstrated by Chernoch and Martin at General Electric [1]. Much of the development has concentrated on the demonstration of systems with near-diffraction-limited performance, which in principal is more readily achieved with the slab laser than with conventional rod-geometry configurations. As Danilov et al have pointed out [2], most of the slab lasers described to date have had considerably lower efficiencies than rod lasers, often the result of pumping-cavity designs chosen for a high uniformity of illumination over the slab surface.

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