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All-solid-state Lasers

Author: the photonics expert Dr. Rüdiger Paschotta

Definition: laser systems containing solid-state devices only, in particular no discharge lamps or gas or dye lasers

Category: article belongs to category laser devices and laser physics laser devices and laser physics

DOI: 10.61835/ji7 Cite the article: BibTex plain text HTML

All-solid-state lasers are lasers which rely on solid-state components not only concerning the gain medium, but also the pump source. Such lasers are solid-state lasers (bulk or fiber lasers) pumped with laser diodes (→ diode-pumped lasers), or pure semiconductor lasers. Excluded are e.g. lamp-pumped lasers, dye lasers, and gas lasers.

end-pumped laser — Figure 1: Setup of a typical end-pumped solid-state laser.

For many practical laser applications, it is desirable to work with all-solid-state lasers because they can have a robust and compact setup, a relatively high wall-plug efficiency and correspondingly low cooling requirements, and a long lifetime. They also often exhibit lower laser noise than lamp-pumped lasers, for example.

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