Analytic treatment of beam quality and power efficiency in a high-power transverse flow diode pumped alkali laser

A Gavrielides, LA Schlie, RD Loper… - Journal of the Optical …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The performance of a 100 kW Rb–He diode pumped alkali laser system is predicted,
including power scaling, optical efficiency, and beam quality. A transverse flow geometry …

Measurement of the 671-nm tune-out wavelength of by atom interferometry

B Decamps, J Vigué, A Gauguet, M Büchner - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We have measured the tune-out wavelength of lithium isotope Li 7 at 671 nm. We have used
our atom interferometer to measure the phase shift due to the dynamical Stark effect as a …

Unstable resonators for high power diode pumped alkali lasers

A Gavrielides, LAV Schlie, RD Loper… - … , and Beam Control …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The high gain Diode Pumped Alkali Laser (DPAL) system will require an unstable resonator
with high Fresnel number and high output coupling to achieve excellent beam quality …

Analytic treatment of high power diode pumped lasers with unstable resonator in a flowing medium

A Gavrielides, LAV Schlie, RD Loper… - … , and Beam Control …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Diode-pumped alkali metal vapor lasers (DPAL) offer significant promise for high average
power. The DPAL system has high gain and will high output coupling and an unstable …