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A lot of important laser applications in industry and science require high average output power in conjunction with high beam quality. To increase the beam quality of high power solid state lasers up to the diffraction limit phase conjugation by SBS (stimulated Brillouin scattering) is promising. Oscillators and different master oscillator power amplifier systems (MOPA) with Nd:YALO as active medium and phaseconjugating mirrors were realised. Using simple SBS-cells as phase conjugating mirrors results in an average output power up to 210 Watts at 1.08 gm in a near diffraction limited beam. Applications in material processing were tested with these systems.
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Eichler, H.J., Haase, A., Mehl, O. (1996). High Power Solid State Lasers with Phase Conjugation for Applications with High Beam Quality. In: Kossowsky, R., Jelinek, M., Walter, R.F. (eds) High Power Lasers — Science and Engineering. NATO ASI Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8725-9_15
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