Coherent combination of four laser beams in a multi-axis Fourier cavity using a diffractive optical element

Marc Tondusson; Claude Froehly; Vincent Kermène; Michel Vampouille

Coherent combination of four laser beams in a multi-axis Fourier cavity using a diffractive optical element

Marc Tondusson ¹ Claude Froehly ¹ Vincent Kermène ¹ Michel Vampouille ¹

1 IRCOM - Institut de Recherche en Communications Optiques et Microondes

Abstract : Thermal aberrations in diode-pumped solid-state laser media are well known. To avoid these effects we propose to end-pump separated zones of a laser crystal with elementary beams of moderate power. We present a multi-axis laser cavity with a single-gain medium longitudinally pumped by four fibre-coupled laser diodes. The four elementary laser beams are coherently combined inside the cavity by a diffractive optical element. 82% of the laser power is focused in a single diffraction limited beam.

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Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, IOP Publishing, 2001, 3

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Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics] / Optique / photonique

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