Abstract
We demonstrated a power scaling of Nd: YAG rod laser by cascaded-coupling of two identical bifocusing compensation resonators. The maximum output power of 1030 W was achieved with the beam quality of M2 = 9. The corresponding electrical-to- optical efficiency was 23 %.
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