Simultaneous brightness enhancement and wavelength conversion to the eye‐safe region in a high‐power diamond Raman laser

A McKay, O Kitzler, RP Mildren - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Brightness enhancement in an external cavity diamond Raman laser designed for high
power conversion of a neodymium (1064 nm) laser to the eye‐safe spectral region is …

Highly efficient diamond Raman laser

RP Mildren, A Sabella - Optics letters, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We report an efficient 532 nm pumped external cavity diamond Raman laser generating
output chiefly at the 573 nm first Stokes. At a pulse repetition rate of 5 kHz, the Raman laser …

302 W quasi-continuous cascaded diamond Raman laser at 1.5 microns with large brightness enhancement

Z Bai, RJ Williams, O Kitzler, S Sarang, DJ Spence… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We report a second Stokes diamond Raman laser at 1.49 μm capable of high power and
large-scale-factor brightness enhancement. Using a quasi-continuous 1.06 μm pump of …

External-cavity diamond Raman laser performance at 1240 nm and 1485 nm wavelengths with high pulse energy

VP Pashinin, VG Ralchenko, AP Bolshakov… - Laser Physics …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on an external-cavity diamond Raman laser (DRL) pumped with a Q-switched Nd:
YAG and generating at 1st and 2nd Stokes (1240 nm and 1485 nm) with enhanced output …

Efficient conversion of a 1.064 μm Nd: YAG laser to the eye-safe region using a diamond Raman laser

A Sabella, JA Piper, RP Mildren - Optics Express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We report an efficient 1.485 μm external cavity diamond Raman laser operating on the 2nd
Stokes shift of a 1.064 μm Nd: YAG pump laser. 1.63 W pulsed at 5 kHz is produced with a …

An efficient 14.5 W diamond Raman laser at high pulse repetition rate with first (1240 nm) and second (1485 nm) Stokes output

A McKay, H Liu, O Kitzler, RP Mildren - Laser Physics Letters, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Efficient operation of a pulsed diamond Raman laser at output powers up to 14.5 W is
reported. An external-cavity Raman resonator 2.5 cm long employing a low-loss CVD …

Diamond Raman laser: A promising high-beam-quality and low-thermal-effect laser

Y Li, J Ding, Z Bai, X Yang, Y Li, J Tang… - High Power Laser …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Stimulated Raman-scattering-based lasers provide an effective way to achieve wavelength
conversion. However, thermally induced beam degradation is a notorious obstacle to power …

Monolithic diamond Raman laser

S Reilly, VG Savitski, H Liu, E Gu, MD Dawson… - Optics letters, 2015 - opg.optica.org
A monolithic diamond Raman laser is reported. It utilizes a 13-mm radius of curvature lens
etched onto the diamond surface and dielectric mirror coatings to form a stable resonator …

Continuous-wave wavelength conversion for high-power applications using an external cavity diamond Raman laser

O Kitzler, A McKay, RP Mildren - Optics letters, 2012 - researchers.mq.edu.au
We demonstrate continuous-wave (cw) operation of a diamond Raman laser at 1240 nm in
an external cavity configuration. The output power increased linearly with pump power with …

High power diamond Raman lasers

RJ Williams, O Kitzler, Z Bai, S Sarang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Laser gain materials possessing high thermal conductivity and robust mechanical properties
are key prerequisites for high power lasers. We show that diamond, when configured as a …