High-power solid-state lasers

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Part of book or chapter of book 01 Jul 1985 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 316, pages 309-314 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: J. F. Holzrichter;

doi: 10.1038/316309a0 , 10.1007/978-3-540-47872-0_2

High-power solid-state lasers

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In 1985 SCHAWLOW and TOWNES [1] described the build-up of coherent light in an optical resonator, or laser. They noted that amplified coherent light would possess two desirable properties: precise, narrow wavelengths, and high brightness or focusability. The first laser, demonstrated by MAIMAN et al. [2] in 1961, produced a peak power of approximately 3kW (3 × 103 W; i.e., 0.5J of light in a pulse a few hundred microseconds long) and verified many of the Schawlow/Townes predictions.

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