公开(公告)号：US20140133514A1

公开(公告)日：2014-05-15

申请号：US13896188

申请日：2013-05-16

Applicant: General Atomics

Inventor： William F. Krupke ,  Jason Stuart Zweiback ,  Alexander A. Betin

IPC: H01S3/03

CPC classification number: H01S3/031 ,  H01S3/0941 ,  H01S3/227

Abstract: Alkali-vapor laser and related methods of lasing are described herein. In some embodiments, a diode-pumped gas-vapor laser is provided that can be scaled to high power. For example, in one embodiment, a triply-transverse configuration of a diode-pumped-alkali-laser (DPAL) is disclosed in which alkali-buffer gain medium is flowed through an laser chamber (for example, configured as an optical resonator or amplifier) whose optical axis is nominally transverse to the flow direction, and whose pump array radiation is propagated into the alkali-buffer gain medium in a direction nominally transverse to both the direction of gain medium flow and the direction of the optical axis.

Abstract translation: 这里描述了碱蒸气激光器和相关的激光方法。 在一些实施例中，提供二极管泵浦的气体 - 蒸汽激光器，其可以被缩放到高功率。 例如，在一个实施例中，公开了二极管泵浦碱激光器（DPAL）的三重横向配置，其中碱缓冲增益介质流过激光室（例如，配置为光学谐振器或放大器 ），其光轴标称横向于流动方向，并且其泵阵列辐射沿着标称横向于增益介质流的方向和光轴方向的方向传播到碱缓冲增益介质中。