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A 658-W VCSEL-pumped rod laser module with 52.6% optical efficiency |
| Xue-Peng Li(李雪鹏)1,4, Jing Yang(杨晶)1,2,3,†, Meng-Shuo Zhang(张梦硕)3, Tian-Li Yang(杨天利)1,4, Xiao-Jun Wang(王小军)1,2,3, and Qin-Jun Peng(彭钦军)1,2,3 |
1 Key Laboratory of Solid State Laser, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
2 Key Laboratory of Functional Crystal and Laser Technology, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
3 Institute of Optical Physics and Engineering Technology, Qilu Zhongke, Jinan 250000, China;
4 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China |
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Abstract A high-efficiency and high-power vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) side-pumped rod Nd:YAG laser with temperature adaptability are demonstrated. The VCSEL side-pumped laser module is designed and optimized. Five VCSEL arrays are symmetrically located around the laser rod and a large size diffused reflection chamber is designed to ensure a uniform pump distribution. Furthermore, the absorbed pump power distribution of the rod is simulated to verify the uniformity of the pump absorption. Finally, a proof-of-principle experiment is performed in short linear cavity laser with single laser module. A continuous-wave output power of 658 W at 1064 nm is obtained, the corresponding optical-to-optical efficiency is 52.6%, and the power variations are ±0.7% over 400 s and ±3.1% over the temperature range from 16 ℃ to 26 ℃. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest output power and the highest optical-to-optical efficiency ever reported for VCSEL pumped solid-state lasers. By inserting a telescopic module into the cavity and optimizing the TEM00 mode volume, the average beam quality is measured to be M2=1.34 under an output power of 102 W. The experimental results reveal that such a high power rod laser module with temperature stability is appropriate or field applications.
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Received: 23 February 2022
Revised: 17 May 2022
Accepted manuscript online: 24 May 2022
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PACS:
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42.55.Xi
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(Diode-pumped lasers)
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42.60.Da
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(Resonators, cavities, amplifiers, arrays, and rings)
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42.60.Lh
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(Efficiency, stability, gain, and other operational parameters)
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| Fund: The authors would like to thank Prof. Da-Fu Cui for his helpful discussion in the manuscript modification. |
Corresponding Authors:
Jing Yang
E-mail: yangjing@mail.ipc.ac.cn
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Cite this article:
Xue-Peng Li(李雪鹏), Jing Yang(杨晶), Meng-Shuo Zhang(张梦硕), Tian-Li Yang(杨天利), Xiao-Jun Wang(王小军), and Qin-Jun Peng(彭钦军) A 658-W VCSEL-pumped rod laser module with 52.6% optical efficiency 2022 Chin. Phys. B 31 084207
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