Mono-modular Disk Laser - The Best Tool for High Energy Applications
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The mono-module disk laser is an effective concept for diode-pumped solid-state lasers, which allows the realization of lasers with super-high output power/energy, having a very good efficiency and also excellent beam quality. Since the first demonstration by academia. N.G.. Basov, with colleagues of the disk laser, in 1964, increased the output power of the disk to the level of a few kW in continuous wave mode of operation. Well-developed” Zig-Zag” disk laser technology does not look promising for further output parameters. The scaling laws suggested in 2013 mono-module disk laser design show that the limits for continuous wave mode of operation are far beyond 100 kW for output power, and the output energy can be higher than 100 J in high repetition rate pulse-periodic mode of operation (> 30kHz). Due to the efficient cooling technology, an effective solution of amplified spontaneous emission suppression and artificial intelligence involvement, the operation of the large-sized mono-module disk laser is possible in CW and pulse-periodic modes at extremely high output power/energy. A new set of applications is coming.
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