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Accession Number:
AD0883641
Title:
Performance Characteristics of a Face Pumped, Face Cooled Slab Laser, the 'Zig-Zag-FPL'.
Corporate Author:
GENERAL ELECTRIC CORPORATE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SCHENECTADY NY
Report Date:
1971-04-01
Abstract:
It has been demonstrated that the thermal-optic distortion and depolarization problem in high average power glass lasers can be essentially solved for large aperture lasers by using a General Electric slab laser concept which provides for uniform face pumping and face cooling of each slab. A mechanically simple and optically effective design of the Zig-Zag-FPL Face Pumped Laser has been tested in a 9 sq cm aperture amplified module containing eight slabs of laser glass and cooled by an approximately index matching fluid. Experimental results obtained in the course of this AF program are included.
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. Jun 69-Nov 70,
Pages:
0025
Contract Number:
F33615-69-C-1805
File Size:
0.00MB
