We report on the first demonstration of an intra-cavity spectral beam combining of two fundamental-mode laser beams generated by a dual Yb:YAG thin-disk resonator. The two thin-disk lasers (TDLs) were operated at the two slightly different wavelengths of 1028 nm and 1032 nm. A resonant diffraction grating waveguide structure was used as common spectral stabilizer and combiner. An average power exceeding 200 W with close to diffraction-limited beam quality ( $$M^2<1.3$$) was obtained with the presented approach.
%0 Journal Article
%1 boubekraoui2022intracavity
%A Boubekraoui, Ayoub
%A Beirow, Frieder
%A Graf, Thomas
%A Abdou Ahmed, Marwan
%D 2022
%J Applied Physics B
%K myown grating diffraction laser peer from:a.boubekraoui Thin-disk
%N 7
%P 120--
%R 10.1007/s00340-022-07836-5
%T Intra-cavity wavelength multiplexing of high-brightness thin-disk laser beams
%U https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-022-07836-5
%V 128
%X We report on the first demonstration of an intra-cavity spectral beam combining of two fundamental-mode laser beams generated by a dual Yb:YAG thin-disk resonator. The two thin-disk lasers (TDLs) were operated at the two slightly different wavelengths of 1028 nm and 1032 nm. A resonant diffraction grating waveguide structure was used as common spectral stabilizer and combiner. An average power exceeding 200 W with close to diffraction-limited beam quality ( $$M^2<1.3$$) was obtained with the presented approach.
@article{boubekraoui2022intracavity,
abstract = {We report on the first demonstration of an intra-cavity spectral beam combining of two fundamental-mode laser beams generated by a dual Yb:YAG thin-disk resonator. The two thin-disk lasers (TDLs) were operated at the two slightly different wavelengths of 1028 nm and 1032 nm. A resonant diffraction grating waveguide structure was used as common spectral stabilizer and combiner. An average power exceeding 200 W with close to diffraction-limited beam quality ( $$M^2<1.3$$) was obtained with the presented approach.},
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author = {Boubekraoui, Ayoub and Beirow, Frieder and Graf, Thomas and Abdou Ahmed, Marwan},
biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/21105676d6caa214a31e39d6d56969daa/ifsw},
doi = {10.1007/s00340-022-07836-5},
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issn = {14320649},
journal = {Applied Physics B},
keywords = {myown grating diffraction laser peer from:a.boubekraoui Thin-disk},
number = 7,
pages = {120--},
refid = {Boubekraoui2022},
timestamp = {2022-07-12T08:26:37.000+0200},
title = {Intra-cavity wavelength multiplexing of high-brightness thin-disk laser beams},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-022-07836-5},
volume = 128,
year = 2022
}