Radially polarized high-power lasers

Marwan Abdou Ahmed; Andreas Voß; Moritz M. Vogel; Armin Austerschulte; Joachim Schulz; Volker Metsch; Tobias Moser; Thomas Graf

doi:10.1117/12.816818

21 April 2009 Radially polarized high-power lasers

Marwan Abdou Ahmed, Andreas Voß, Moritz M. Vogel, Armin Austerschulte, Joachim Schulz, Volker Metsch, Tobias Moser, Thomas Graf

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Proceedings Volume 7131, XVII International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, and High-Power Lasers; 71311I (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.816818
Event: XVII International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High Power Lasers, 2008, Lisboa, Portugal

Abstract

In the recent years high-power laser beams with radial polarization have attracted an increasing interest because of their interesting properties in material processing. We present an overview of the current activities and different techniques to generate such beams in CO₂ and solid-state lasers. With a polarising end-mirror which comprises a resonant grating on a dielectric multilayer Bragg-structure we recently demonstrated a 3-kW radially polarised CO₂ laser. Current investigations are also focused especially on the application of this technology to thin-disk lasers. The specific requirements and the whole development from the design and fabrication to the characterization and test are illustrated with the example of a multilayer polarizing grating mirror developed to generate a radially polarised beam in an Yb:YAG thin-disc laser resonator. The potential of this kind of beams are discussed with a number of first application results, which largely confirm the predictions presented by Niziev et al1.

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Marwan Abdou Ahmed, Andreas Voß, Moritz M. Vogel, Armin Austerschulte, Joachim Schulz, Volker Metsch, Tobias Moser, and Thomas Graf "Radially polarized high-power lasers", Proc. SPIE 7131, XVII International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, and High-Power Lasers, 71311I (21 April 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.816818

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