title: Compact architecture for power scaling bounce geometry lasers.
abstract: We demonstrate the compact high-power scaling of bounce geometry lasers with a new dual-pumped folded amplifier design. A Q-switched laser oscillator built with this amplifier is shown to produce over 30 W of average power from 80 W of pump power at up to 600 kHz repetition rate. In a master-oscillator power-amplifier (MOPA) configuration using the dual-pumped amplifier, we demonstrate over 100 W of output power from 250 W of pump power. We also demonstrate very high repetition rate Q-switching (1.7 MHz) of the master oscillator.
authors.affiliation: Photonics, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BW, UK. simon.chard02@imperial.ac.uk
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Chard
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Damzen
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D053844:Lasers, Solid-State; D008904:Miniaturization; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity