Author:
Xu Jixi,Li Weichang,Wang Xin,Tang Jingping,Chen Wei,Chen Shubin,Hu Lili
Abstract
The good cladding of a large-sized Nd-doped phosphate glass slab as a laser amplifier requires not only the amplified spontaneous emission and parasitic oscillation to be fully absorbed, to hold up the small signal gain coefficient of the Nd ions, but also the absorbed heat energy to be appropriately dissipated to extend a uniform temperature field for the larger laser beam aperture of the edge-cladded Nd–glass slab. In the present work, numerical simulations were performed based on the developed feasible edge-cladding designs for a 786 × 436 × 40 mm3 Nd–glass slab, including the following alterations: optical absorptivity, quantum-dot absorption centers, ceramics with higher thermal diffusivity, glasses with lower and higher specific heat values, 3D printing edge-cladding methods, double-deck edge-cladding structure with transparent strips as a buffer layer, and thickening of the edge-cladding. All of these designed edge-cladding materials, methods, and structures satisfy both requirements of sufficiently absorbing and precisely matching with the refractive index, as emphasized by the edge-cladding for the Nd–glass. Some of the designed edge-claddings resulted in a much more uniform temperature field than the composite polymer–glass edge-cladding as the standard for comparison, which could be utilized to extend the effective laser aperture of the Nd–glass slab, thus being beneficial to the laser beam size and laser energy in the optics recycle loop strategy.
Funder
Nd–glass project from National Major Science and Technology Project of China
Subject
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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