Departmental News

Posted:  Mar 01, 2017 - 12:00am

The ability to demonstrate high-power lasers without net internal heat generation will have immense payoffs in several key DoD mission applications such as directed energy, remote detection, and sensing. The proposed work will give enhanced  understanding of the heat-dissipation limits of RE-doped fiber and disk-lasers as well as semiconductor disk lasers for applications requiring >1 kW average power and high beam quality. The material synthesis work of this effort will have broad-ranging, general implications for high-power lasers as well as optical refrigeration, two topics with significant DoD applications. The proposed work on semiconductor-disk RBL lasers, if successful, will represent a significant breakthrough in the field of laser science and solid-state optical refrigeration.

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