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Optics and Apparatus for Solid State Laser Micro-processing

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Solid-state lasers involving high-density active media are considered the most important types of lasers. The active medium of a solid-state laser consists of a transparent host material in which active species ions are introduced as an impurity. Desirable properties for such host materials include hardness, chemical inertness, absence of internal strain and refractive index variations, resistance to radiation-induced color centers, and ease of fabrication. Due to the relatively long upper-state lifetimes or broad-gain bandwidths of solid-state laser materials, the energy accumulated during a long optical pumping cycle can be released quickly in the form of a short, high peak-power pulse. Solid-state lasers are normally optically pumped by a flash lamp, an arc lamp or high-power laser diodes, providing enhanced brightness with improved beam quality, leading to output powers ranging from a few milliwatts to many kilowatts. However, the optical pump process in a solid-state laser material also results in the generation of deposited waste heat which causes thermo-optic distortion.

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    Xiaoxu Deng

  2. Key Laboratory of Opto-electronic Information Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Precision Instruments and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjing, China

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Ya Cheng

  2. XXL – The Extreme Optoelectromechanics Laboratory, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

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  3. State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

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Deng, X., Hu, M. (2021). Optics and Apparatus for Solid State Laser Micro-processing. In: Sugioka, K. (eds) Handbook of Laser Micro- and Nano-Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63647-0_5

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