Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond crystal is considered as an ideal material
platform for Raman lasers with both high power and good beam quality due to its excellent …

Stimulated Raman-scattering-based lasers provide an effective way to achieve wavelength
conversion. However, thermally induced beam degradation is a notorious obstacle to power …

Despite their extremely high thermal conductivity and low thermal expansion coefficients,
thermal effects in diamond are still observed in high-power diamond Raman lasers, which …

We report experimental observations of thermal lens effects in a diamond Raman laser
operating up to 1.1 kW output power in a quasi-steady-state regime. Measured changes in …

Thermal effects are some of the most significant factors limiting power scalability and beam
quality of laser systems. In this work we examine both theoretically and experimentally, the …

Diamond has a broad spectral transmission range (> 0.2 μm) and the largest Raman
frequency shift (1,332 cm− 1) among known Raman crystals. Hence, the diamond Raman …

Recent progress in diamond growth via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) has enabled the
manufacture of single crystal samples of sufficient size and quality for realizing Raman laser …

Quasi-cw pumping is used to investigate the high-power characteristics of cw beam
conversion in diamond Raman lasers (DRLs). We show that thermal gradients establish in …

Recent developments in diamond synthesis have enabled the growth of high optical quality
material. This opens the way for intracavity applications in lasers [1], and in particular the …

Solid-state Raman lasers represent a convenient way of shifting the output of lasers to
longer wavelengths with enhanced brightness. In the continuous-wave (CW) regime, the …