CONTINUOUS-WAVE LASER PUMP LIGHT-SOURCES - NEW CONCEPTS

Authors
REICHERT T NEIGER M POPP HP DIETZ KJ DOHN A KRONERT U
Citation
T. Reichert et al., CONTINUOUS-WAVE LASER PUMP LIGHT-SOURCES - NEW CONCEPTS, Applied optics, 32(33), 1993, pp. 6607-6609
Citations number
2
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036935
Volume
32
Issue
33
Year of publication
1993
Pages
6607 - 6609
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(1993)32:33<6607:CLPL-N>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
The relatively short lifetime of rare-gas discharge pump light sources for high-power cw solid-state lasers is caused mainly by vaporized ca thode emitter material reacting with the thermally highly loaded quart z wall. The introduction of new bipolar electrodes without special emi tter materials mounted on hot-ended molybdenum-cup seals, together wit h 60-kHz ac operation, makes possible the application of a tungsten ha lide cleaning cycle within the lamp bulb. This new type of high-power rare-gas pump light source exhibits 20% better radiation efficiency, 2 0% lower Nd:YAG laser threshold, and considerably extended lifetime.