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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has recently undertaken an effort to develop new solid state lasers capable of operating at considerably higher performance levels (efficiency, average power, wavelength diversity, etc.) than attainable with current technologies. To guide this effort, we have performed analyses to establish the fundamental limits on the performance levels of solid state lasers in terms of known laser physics and design principles (gain, gain saturation, amplified spontaneous emission, parasitics, nonlinear self-focusing, etc.) and the physical properties of crystalline and amorphous materials.1,2 a technical summary of these results, and the salient conclusions drawn from them, was presented by John Emmett at this conference.
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Krupke, W.F. (1985). Advanced Crystalline Laser Materials. In: Byer, R.L., Gustafson, E.K., Trebino, R. (eds) Tunable Solid State Lasers for Remote Sensing. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39765-6_27
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