针对传导冷却和端面抽运的激光增益模块特点,设计了一台10kW级高功率全固态板条激光放大器实验装置。分析了激光注入功率密度和入射角度等参数对激光放大器提取效率的影响。实验测试了注入功率密度与激光增益模块光-光转换效率的关系,实验结果与理论分析基本吻合。激光放大器实验装置的种子源通过一级预放大器和两级主放大器放大后获得了高功率和高光束质量的激光输出,激光放大器输出功率达为11.3kW,光束质量7.56倍衍射极限,出光时间110s,光-光转换效率达30%。
For the conduction cooled end-pumped zig-zag slab module,a novel 10 kW high power laser amplifier setup of the all-solid slab laser has been designed.The laser extractive efficiency of the amplifier with various laser power densities and various incidence angles is simulated with a laser amplifier model.The optical-optical conversion efficiency of the laser amplifier is measured in the experiment.The experimental result agrees well with the simulation.A seed laser is amplified in a pre-amplifier stage and two amplifier stages all-solid-state amplifier system with high power and high beam quality to a output power of 11.3 kW,with the beam quality 7.56 times diffraction limit and the runtime over 110 seconds.The optics-optics conversion efficiency is 30%.