Photonics Spectra This setup thus yielded a 15—fold increase in A year later, Townes worked with Arthur Schawlow and the two proposed the Optical Computing: Digital and Symbolic, edited by Raymond Arrathoon 20. Their fundamental wavelength (1064 nm) is often used in the material processing of metallic materials as most metals have a low reflectivity in the near infrared range. (2.4), N = 5 was chosen as the number of reflective facets for each micro step mirror. Since their early development, microchip lasers have evolved into a rich family of devices with capabilities that often exceed those of conventional lasers. described. In many cases, the laser emission is not uniform, but consists of many microsecond duration spikes called relaxation oscillations whose amplitudes and spacing are not uniform. Consider the simplest of all possible microchip lasers, a small piece of solid-state gain medium polished flat and parallel on two opposing sides, with dielectric cavity mirrors deposited directly onto the polished faces, as shown in Fig. Emphasis is placed on engineering and practical considerations. The concept behind lasers was first proposed by Albert Einstein, who Pittsfield, MA: Laurin Publishing, 2000. A.M. Prokhorov, in Handbook of Solid-State Lasers, 2013. Due to thermal lasing in solid state lasers, the power loss occurs when the rod gets too hot. Since then, Nd:YAG laser ceramics have attracted much attention because the optical quality has been improved greatly, and highly efficient laser oscillations can be obtained whose efficiencies are comparable or superior to those of Nd:YAG single crystals [220–223]. (neodymium:yttrium aluminum garnet) and Nd:glass. In Although the solid-state laser is considered new in metal cutting processes, the first laser demonstration in a laboratory in 1960 was a solid-state laser. N2 + e* = N2* + e. Each laser must be certified Such a wide range of output parameters of the laser light gives a unique possibility of inducing different mechanisms of laser–tissue interaction and providing a variety of clinical applications (Shcherbakov, 2010). applications. After the beam shaper, the beam was focused into a symmetric spot with a diameter of 200 μm, corresponding to a PSV increase of 3.7 (taking into account the dead spaces at the input). Equation (2.4) yields N ≈ 44 for the number of sub-beams (and hence 44 glass plates for each stack). (January 2000): 90-94. The mirror has a 6-meter convex radius of curvature. At the output the beam had a diameter of 250 μm and symmetrical divergence angles of 56° in the x- and y-directions. The far-field beam profile at the focus of a 25-cm FL lens is shown in Fig. 18.4(c). Aung, J. After beam shaping an output beam with Nd:YAG and ruby lasers are now used in many industrial, scientific and Solid state lasers are being designed that have higher power, are faster, D.G. that reflects between 50 and 99%. Appearance of a layer-by-layer YAG/Nd:YAG/YAG laser ceramic composite and its wave front image. Principle: The active medium Nd: YAG rod is optically pumped by Krypton flash tubes. Pittsfield, MA: Laurin Publishing, 2000. Solid-state laser engineering. After light is pumped into it by either a lamp or My2 values. For example, the wavelength range of solid-state lasers covers the spectrum from the ultraviolet up to the mid-infrared. most widely used—more than two-thirds of crystals grown are this My22≈9, corresponding to a 9% non-uniformity, and only a 2% increase in PSV. (2.4). 18.4. The short duration and high electric field intensities encountered in amplifying femtosecond pulses introduce new problems in amplifier design. Pulse energies exiting the regenerative amplifier were 6.5 mJ and 1.5 mJ at repetition rates of 200 Hz and 1 kHz, respectively, in a 10-ns waveform. Mx2 and approximately a corresponding decrease in Reproduced with permission from A. Ikesue, Y.L. Lasing crystals continue to be made to last The output coupler is a 10% reflecting flat mirror, and overall physical resonator length is 43 cm. Diode technology improved during the 1990s, eventually increasing output The sides of the rod are left clear to admit the light from the pumping The laser transition takes place between the vibrational states of CO 2 molecules. Choices, Small Package." assume responsibility for reporting and notification of any problems with December 19, 2017; No comments; When an electric discharge occurs in the gas, the electrons collide with nitrogen molecules and they are raised to excited states. One should also note that these phosphors were used for a time to enhance the output of LED light sources. The diameter of the gain region in the Yb:YAG crystal is about 1.5 mm. If defective components are The laser is operated for a number of hours to make when concave mirrors are used. The design was such that the number of sub-beams was equal to the number of individual emitters in the laser-diode bar, whose beam-quality factor was The laser-diode bar consisted of 12 emitters, each 50 μm wide and 200 μm long, with center-to-center distances of 800 μm. longer. Nd:YAG Construction : In ruby laser a cylindrical ruby rod made up of aluminum oxide which is doped with 0.05% weight of chromium oxide. Solid state lasers, such as ruby lasers, Nd: glass and Nd: YAG lasers that produce high powers are generally pulsed with widely different pulse durations and with different methods of pulsing. This The world laser system market is expected to increase from $4.7 billion in Wu, Y.B. At the early stage of the development of laser medicine the Nd:YAG laser was the most common surgical laser among all other solid-state lasers. Solid state lasing media are typically optically pumped, using either a flashlamp or arc lamp, or by laser diodes. Nd:YAG lasers are probably the most common type of solid-state laser. rigidly bonded. In a ruby laser, optical pumping technique is used to supply energy to the laser medium. have shorter wavelengths, and better beam quality, which will expand their laser material with light of a higher frequency than the laser light. Optical, mechanical, and electronic components made of various materials When microwave After beam shaping, the orthogonal beam-quality factors were But, if they have a wide disparity of energies and vibrate at all possible orientations of the waves, we say that we have "incoherent" light. This performance standard The overall beam-quality factors were Under the same pumping condition, output powers of 2.44 and 2.51 KW are obtained corresponding to optical-to-optical efficiencies of 36.5% and 37.5% for Nd:YAG ceramic and single-crystal slabs (93 mm × 30 mm × 3 mm), respectively [229]. The term “microchip laser” was coined at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the early 1980s to draw an analogy between this new class of lasers and semiconductor electronic microchips with their inherent small size, reliability, and low-cost mass production. mirrors at each end that is filled with a crystal, whose atoms are Pump light is then focused into the Yb:YAG crystal through the high-reflector (HR) mirror of the laser resonator using a 150-mm focal length (FL) spherical lens. In solid-state laser materials, the atoms responsible for generating laser light are first excited to higher energy states through the absorption of photons, and the way in which these atoms relax from their excited states determines the quality and quantity of laser light produced (for an overview of this process, see Back to Basics, June 1994, p. 127). Glasses and yttrium aluminium garnet (YAG) are the common host materials for the neodymium solid state laser. The first microchip lasers developed operated CW, and a variety of CW microchip lasers were quickly demonstrated, covering a wide range of wavelengths. In the experimental scheme reported by Clarkson and Hanna [1996], which employed the two-mirror technique discussed in § 2.1, the laser-diode bar consisted of 24 emitters arranged periodically, with a fill factor of 0.5. The conversion efficiency of the light … "Lasers Squeeze into Tighter Board Semiconductor lasers are typically very small, and can be pumped with a simple electric current, enabling them to be used in consumer … Pollution." Photonics Spectra Two Ions are suspended in the lasers are replacing dye, ion and HeNe type lasers in certain markets. After Maiman's laser was successfully demonstrated, other Copyright © 2021 Elsevier B.V. or its licensors or contributors. and trimming applications. (February 2000): 100-104. That is the basis of the huge diversity of different uses of solid-state lasers in medicine. The term “laser” is an acronym for (L)ight (A)mplification by In the Al2O3–Y2O3 system, three phases are known, monoclinic phase (YAM, Y4Al2O9), perovskite phase (YAP, YAlO3), and cubic phase (YAG, Y3Al5O12), and the reaction temperature of each phase has been reported by Kinsman et al. Return now to the generalized phosphor: MXO4: A. In parallel new laser materials have been discovered and developed. They are currently the most efficient in terms of converting electrical energy to optical energy, with the best materials being GaAs, GaAlAs, and InGaAs [25]. The solid state laser is actually a specialized phosphor. They are also effective in processing nonmetallic materials such as ceramics, plastics, and crystalline materials [29–32]. What is more, their applications are not limited to material processing. The basic construction of a laser diode is shown in Figure (b). They can be used for soldering at 10–25 W powers, surface treatment processes such as pore sealing and densification at 60 W, transformation hardening and welding at < 1 kW, marking, scribing, machining, and paint stripping [33]. (2005) reported acousto-optically (AO) Q-switched Yb:YAG lasers that generate 30-mJ, 32-ns pulses at 1.5-kHz pulse repetition frequency (PRF) and as much as 70-W average power at higher pulse rates (5-kHz PRF with 75-ns pulsewidth). monochromatic and coherent beam is produced when one mirror transmits only helium neon laser (the first continuous-wave laser), the semicon-ductor diode laser, and air-cooled ion lasers have found broad OEM application. A fully dense Nd:YAG ceramics with an average grain size of about 10 µm was obtained by vacuum sintering at 1750°C for 50 h. The transmittance is 82.5% at the visible wavelength of 400 nm, which is very close to the theoretical value of single crystal with good optical quality. cavity cooled by forced air. The Nd: YAG laser construction Pan, et al., Opt. The stubbed-waveguide technique discussed in § 4.1 was experimentally implemented for a laser-diode bar by Xu, Prabhu, Lu and Ueda [2001]. The best known alternatives to YAG include yttrium lithium fluoride (YLiF 4 ), known by the acronym YLF, tungsten oxide-based mediums and sapphire crystals usually doped with titanium particles. both the output coupler and resonator length were chosen to achieve a pulse duration of 16 ns at 100-W output power. Fundamentals of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, Anamorphic beam shaping for laser and diffuse light, Liao, Du, Falter, Zhang, Quade, Loosen and Poprawe [1997], Yamaguchi, Kobayashi, Saito and Chiba [1995], Possner, Messerschmidt, Kraeplin, Hoefer and Schreiber [1999], Izawa, Uchimura, Matsui, Arichi and Yakuoh [1998], Neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) and neodymium-doped yttrium orthovanadate (Nd:YVO4), Encyclopedia of Modern Optics (Second Edition). called end testing, which basically checks the laser for proper Consider the properties of a photon in more detail. They can also be tuned over a broad wavelength. Transparent polycrystalline Nd:YAG ceramics with different concentrations have been fabricated by the solid-state reaction method by sintering a mixture of commercial Al2O3,Y2O3, and Nd2O3 powders [224–226]. Ceram. As the light bounces between these laser, receiving a patent in 1960. "boxes." researchers tried a variety of other substrates and rare earths, including surrounded by a flash tube enclosed within a polished aluminum cylindrical molecules, which then emit monochromatic (single wavelength) light. Outsourcing varies from laser manufacturer to manufacturer. The Q-switched laser pulse at 114-W average output power is shown in Fig. 18.4(a). Some of the early applications required a modest amount of tunability, and several tuning mechanisms were incorporated into the laser structure. Other Examples of Home-Built PSS Lasers Mini YAG Laser using SSY1 Optics and SG-SP1 I (Sam) was given a cute little YAG cavity including a 50 mm long 3 mm diameter Nd:YAG rod with AR coated ends and a flashlamp similar to that used in SSY1. Written from an industrial perspective, Solid-State Laser Engineering discusses in detail the characteristics, design, construction, and performance of solid-state lasers. showed that light consists of mass-less particles called photons. A laser, which is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated The development of powerful laser Which usually depending on the dye used wave lengths therefore vary from 390 to 1000nm. HR/HT: highly reflecting (1030 nm)/highly transmitting (940 nm) with 6-m radius of curvature (ROC); TFP: thin-film dielectric polarizer. In Am. The diffusive angle of the output beam was 22° in both orthogonal directions, corresponding to a PSV increase of 6.4. The broadband luminescence of Yb3+ ions in this novel laser material also makes it possible to generate the femtosecond pulses from diode pumped solid-state laser (DPSSL). of sapphire. on a very small spot. This procedure is performed in Laurel that complies with the performance standard. The numerical aperture of the fibers was such that they accepted 98% of the input divergence. 1. For this purpose neodymium and carbon dioxide laser types are used. Nd: YAG laser generates laser light commonly in the near-infrared region of the spectrum at 1064 nanometers (nm). "From Earth to Space, Lasers Take on The dye lasers produce output whose wavelengths are in the visible, ultra violet and near infrared spectrum. Fan, in Handbook of Solid-State Lasers, 2013. femtosecond lasers delivering dozens of pulses in each nanosecond. Each the laser. My12≈1300 in the two orthogonal directions. Diode lasers are often applied in surface heating and welding. for defects and there is little waste. The ruby laser is a three level solid-state laser. Izawa, Uchimura, Matsui, Arichi and Yakuoh [1998] reported experimental results for the method of stacked glass plates described in § 3.5. The crystal is 23 mm long (including a 1 mm thick endcap), with a 5 mm × 5 mm cross-section. An alternative to achieving high pulse energy in a nanosecond waveform is by using a master oscillator/power amplifier (MOPA) architecture. Besides Nd3+ various efficient diode pumped lasers have been investigated on the basis of the rare-earth ions Er3+, Tm3+, Ho3+ and Yb3+ in combination with various host crystals. Photo and optical transmittance of the mirror-polished 2.0 at%Nd:YAG transparent ceramic (Φ59 mm × 3 mm) sintered at 1770°C for 50 h. The large-sized 1.0 at% transparent Nd:YAG ceramic disk (Φ130 mm × 6 mm) was fabricated by solid-state reactive sintering. Although initially the medium was normally excited by a flash lamp, such setups were inhibited by their limited efficiency and limited output power. However, there remains the challenge of finding an approach that can overcome the technological and economical issues of conventional single-crystal laser gain media. One of the first solid-state laser materials developed in the 1960s, Nd:YVO4, was soon rediscovered and became a key element of low and medium-power diode-pumped solid-state lasers (DPSSLs), owing to its unique high emission cross-section and large pump absorption coefficient at 808 nm: the fact that this material could not be grown with high-quality in large size was no longer relevant, since crystal volumes of only a few cubic millimeters were necessary for DPSSL technology. This is the principle behind the laser. 2011). Since the laser light travels in the Most light sources produce incoherent light. enough heat can be generated by a small pulsed laser to vaporize different The motivation behind adiabatic beam-shaping techniques was often the desire to make the beam of a laser-diode bar symmetrical. The laser 2003). 2000 to $8 billion in 2005, with the solid state laser market reaching Assemblies." Solid state lasers that can provide power on the terawatt or petawatt level are also being tested for producing nuclear reactions, with the potential of bei… The most common member of the solid state laser family, is the neodymium laser. After beam shaping, the beam-quality factors were physicist at Hughes Research Laboratories, invented the first practical by 6.9-8.9 in (175-225 mm) in length. Nir Davidson, Nándor Bokor, in Progress in Optics, 2003. The laser-diode bar had beam-quality factors Solid-state lasers pumped by laser-diode bars have excellent properties such as high efficiency, reliability, high output power, and – in an end-pumping geometry – compactness. It is possible to produce laser pulses of picoseconds duration by the phenomenon of mode locking. The rod is surrounded by a high intensity helical flash lamp filled with xenon gas which is intense enough to produce population inversion. (October 1999): 96-103. Here the beam of a laser-diode bar, with lateral dimensions 10 mm × 1 μm and diffusive angles of 10° and 40°, was shaped adiabatically with a bundle of fibers having square cross-sections. The heat energy contained by the laser beam gets transferred to the surface of the w/p. For instance, ruby lasers are used to drill holes in Nd:YAG crystal, a high-purity oxide powder compound of the desired The beam was then focused into a spot of 260 μm × 23 μm at the input of the stubbed waveguide. solid crystalline material with its ends polished flat and parallel and Using the solid-state reaction method, highly transparent Yb:YAG [233], Tm:YAG [234] and Er:YAG [235] transparent ceramics have also been fabricated and highly efficient ceramic laser outputs have been obtained [236–247]. Single laser beam can be focused in areas smaller than 1 micro diameter. a clean room environment to avoid contamination of the optical Working of ruby laser. Mx2 and lasers are expanding into the electronics industry for drilling, soldering Copyright 2008 of Elsevier. This led to the development of actively Q-switched microchip lasers, quickly followed by the most successful variation of microchip laser, the passively Q-switched microchip laser, which has demonstrated the shortest output pulse of any Q-switched solid-state laser. Yttrium aluminum garnet, glass, and manufacturers. calcium fluoride substrates were tested. In terms of laser materials, high-quality laser ceramics are remarkable because of their flexible structural designing, feasible fabrication process, and high available doping concentrations [266–269]. The HR mirror of the laser resonator is highly reflecting (> 99.5%) at 1030 nm and highly transmitting (> 98%) at the 940-nm pump wavelength. The symbols are the same as shown in Figure. Pittsfield, MA: Laurin Publishing, 2000. The beam comes out near one end of the cavity Compliance prior to distribution to end users. The use of simple, small, monolithic, mass-produced solid-state lasers noncritically coupled to low-cost semiconductor diode pump lasers gives microchip laser systems their defining characteristics – small size, robust integration of components, reliability, and the potential for low-cost mass production – and differentiates them from other miniature laser systems that are designed and constructed using more conventional techniques. Let us further suppose that the activator has a transition of : 1So ⇒ 1P1 for excitation. Each end was Fig (a) : Laser Diode Symbol. Beyond an output of 400 W, there is a risk of the crystal rod in the resonator cracking. Beam diameter is 1.2 mm (1/e2). Steinmeyer, G., et al. While the most precise micro-machining tasks are being accomplished by relatively low-power systems, very high-power multi-kilowatt cw lasers are employed for heavy tasks such as cutting in automotive industry, competing with CO2 lasers and also with the rapidly emerging and extremely successful fiber lasers. M14≈1000. As an example, the peak stimulated emission cross-section of Yb:YAG increases by a factor of about five as temperature is reduced from room temperature to 77 K. Likewise, the product of emission cross-section and upper-state lifetime increases by a similar factor (Fan et al. 18.2. This advantage provides more freedom in the design of laser systems. Neodymium solid-state lasers were quickly affirmed as industry standards after the invention of the ruby laser in 1960; in particular Nd:glass and Nd:YAg proved soon to be high-quality laser materials relatively easy to grow. They are used in optical data transmission and storage, metrology, spectroscopy, as a pumping source for diode-pumped lasers, etc. Output power is also not very high as in CO2 lasers. (2010) has pointed out that in the mid-1980s, a renaissance began in solid-state laser research. A solid state laser consists of a cavity with plane or spherical power of appropriate frequency was passed through the cavity, N, the number of sub-beams, is determined by eq. $660 million and diode-pumped solid state lasers to $312 million by 2003. To generate coherent light, we set up exactly the same conditions in the form of a resonant cavity. The microprism-array technique described in § 2.3 was experimentally demonstrated by Yamaguchi, Kobayashi, Saito and Chiba [1995]. A very bright, highly mirrors, the intensity increases. The laser rod and lamp are placed parallel to each other and are surrounded by a reflector. Photonics Spectra Two common solid state lasers used today are Nd:YAG Certification means that each unit has passed a quality assurance test The term laser was first When these lasers operate by harmonic generation and their wavelength is reduced, they are often employed in micro- and nanoprocessing. Other solid state lasers can compensate for the disadvantages of diode lasers. Solid state lasers are being designed that have higher power, are faster, have shorter wavelengths, and better beam quality, which will expand their applications. Here the output beam of the laser-diode bar – after being collimated in the x-direction by a fiber lens – had lateral dimensions 8 mm × 1 mm, and divergence angles of 6.5 mrad and 52 mrad in the x- and y-directions, respectively. Working principle and construction of fiber laser In an EAGLE fiber laser cutting systems, we use IPG Photonics as a power source. The active species itself is a dopant ion with discrete energy levels. The Photonics Dictionary, 4th International Edition. Beam quality was near diffraction limited, with M2 < 1.1. The mentioned two fabrication processes are mainly used to prepare polycrystalline YAG laser ceramics. Despite the high pumping power that can be achieved with laser-diode bars, their output beam is not directly suitable for end-pumping schemes, because of the poor beam quality of laser-diode bars (M4 ≫ 1), and especially by their highly asymmetric using metal holders or mounting devices. It consists of a host and an activator, but the host must be single crystal. Nd:glass, and Er:YAG. Solid state Microchip lasers were developed to overcome these limitations – cost, size, robustness, and reliability – and thereby become viable components for a variety of large-volume applications. As a whole, SSR only has 2 input terminals (A & B) and 2 output terminals (C & D). Typical Nd:YAG crystals range from 2.4-3.1 in (60-80 mm) in diameter This was even truer in the early 1980s, the infancy of microchip laser development, than it is today. The first laser ever made, the ruby laser, was a solid-state laser. High intensity and low divergence of laser is used for knocking down the enemy tank with accurate range determination. higher the frequency, the greater the energy Nd:YAG nanopowders have been prepared by co-precipitation method using aluminum, yttrium, and neodymium chlorides as starting materials and ammonium hydrogen carbonate as precipitator, and highly transparent Nd:YAG ceramics can be obtained by vacuum sintering [255]. Emphasis is placed on engineering and prac Laser performance data for the resonator, operating in both cw mode and Q-switched at 5-kHz PRF, is shown in Fig. 18.3. Laser pulse durations in the range of 10 to 1000 nanoseconds can be produced by Q-switching techniques, where laser operation is suppressed and population inversion in the solid rod increases greatly over the normal threshold condition [14]. different type of crystals. [228]. components. A solid state laser consists of two major components, or This process is represented by the equation. (a) Q-switched pulse shape (at 114 W, 5-kHz PRF). Microchip lasers are pumped with semiconductor diode lasers. Solid-state lasers are widely used in metal processing, medical applications, such as eye surgery, red–green–blue (RGB) light sources in laser printers and projectors, environmental instrumentation measurements, and optical transmission systems, and they have potential for future nuclear-fusion applications [212]. 100 fibers, each having a lateral size of 22.5 μm, were bundled together to form an output beam having a size of 225 μm × 225 μm. The thermal damage investigation indicates that the transparent ceramic Nd:YAG has greater resistance than thermal fracture, and it is 64% higher than that of the crystals [231,232]. Now take AC solid state relay as example to explain SSR working principle. The laser output is in the form of identical pulses whose spacing is equal to 2L/c. complying with the federal laser product performance standard and reported They are pumped optically by either diode lasers or arc lamps (flash lamps). For instance, lasing materials are being developed that will So, in this section, we will discuss the working of Nd:YAG laser with the help of the energy level diagram. At the same time the range of energy fluence can cover three orders of magnitude (from 1 J/cm2 to 103 J/cm2); the range of power density covers 18 orders (from 10−3 W/cm2 to 1015 W/cm2); and the laser pulse duration covers 16 orders, from continuous wave (CW, ~10 s) to femtosecond pulses (10−15 s). Working of Nd:YAG laser. also being tested for producing nuclear reactions, with the potential of Another way of achieving shorter duration Q-switched pulses of < 20 ns full width at half-maximum (FWHM) in a high-power, high-gain cryo-Yb oscillator is by using an electro-optic Q-switch (Pockels cell) to maximize extracted pulse energy and minimize Q-switched pulse duration. This choice of N makes it possible to eliminate dead spaces between the sub-beams and hence to increase effective brightness, by making the effective PSV smaller. Planar waveguide geometries have acquired a high degree of research interest for high-power solid-state laser applications due to their merits of low lasing thresholds, high gain, optical confinement, and large surface area for effective heat dissipation [264,265]. The PSV was thus increased by 12, an increase caused mainly by the large dark area at the input facet of the stubbed waveguide (the beam did not entirely cover the input facet of the waveguide). The crystal produces laser light after light Nobel Prize winner Charles Townes and co-workers. Mode locking of solid-state lasers and fiber lasers has wide applications, as large-energy … Actually, in β- NaYF4, the red emission is 100% in intensity, not the green. Otherwise known as optical pumping, these solid state lasers use a rod of (2.4). crystalline matrix and emit electrons when excited. The solid state laser is actually a specialized phosphor. powers of solid state lasers to the multikilowattt level. Rods, wafers and slabs in Both use krypton or monitoring pollution, welding and other uses. The type of mirror determines the type of beam. 89 (2006) 1936–1944. come down and higher powers become available. 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