… We report experimental observations of thermal lens effects in a diamond Raman laser …
focusing lens, are compared to modelling enabling us to track the development of a thermal lens …

… the extreme thermal properties of diamond provide great potential for achieving high output
power, we have already attained levels beyond that expected from first-order thermal lens …

… of diamond Raman lasers, including beam quality optimization, Raman conversion, thermal
… The thermal distribution and thermal lens effect in diamond with first-order Stokes output …

… strengths are 163.6 m −1 , 133.7 m −1 , 117.1 m −1 , and 103.5 m −1 , which are similar to
the thermal lens strength of diamond crystal in the literature [6,45], while significantly lower …

… the diamond, which we demonstrate for the first time in a CW DRL. Thermal lens calculations
… 3), we deduce that the diamond thermal lens is much weaker than the calculations suggest. …

… of the diamond Raman laser, the output of 1240 nm with132 W is realized. The temperature
difference between the diamond and … Thermally-induced effects such as thermal lensing and …

… its superlative Raman frequency shift ( ∼ 40 THz ), large Raman … thermal properties afforded
by diamond (giant thermal … Raman lasing with greatly reduced thermal lensing effects [1,4]. …

… This is despite predictions that thermal effects are likely to be observed … In this Letter, we
demonstrate a diamond Raman laser … evidence for thermal lensing in a diamond laser, observed …

… a pulsed Raman laser at 1193nm based on synthetic diamond … Raman oscillation was
achieved at both room temperature and … A given heat load results in a stronger thermal lensing at …

… beam conversion in diamond Raman lasers (DRLs). We show that thermal gradients establish
… The temporal evolution of a thermal lens in a high average-power external-cavity Raman …