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8.2 kW high beam quality quasi-continuous-wave face-pumped Nd: YAG slab amplifier

Chen et al., 2015

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603002746557897216
Author
Chen Z
Xu Y
Guo Y
Wang B
Xu J
Xu J
Gao H
Yuan L
Yuan H
Lin Y
Xiao Y
Bo Y
Peng Q
Lei W
Cui D
Xu Z
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Applied Optics

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An 8 kW level quasi-continuous-wave (QCW) face-pumped 1064 nm slab laser with high beam quality was developed by a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system. A single- mode fiber seed laser was amplified by two-stage single-pass Nd: YAG rod preamplifiers …
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