The diode array pumped kilowatt laser (DAPKL) has demonstrated more than an order of
magnitude increase in brightness and average power for short pulse diode-pumped solid-state …

… diode-pumped solid-state lasers in recent years has significantly enhanced the performance
of solid-state lasers … The small size and high reliability of diode-pumped lasers are attractive …

… The laser discussed in the present paper is pumped by diode arrays having an active length
and … The laser rod and diode arrays in the pump head are cooled through common coolant …

The goal of the DAPKL program is to scale high brightness, diode pumped solid state lasers
to the kilowatt average power level by developing a 10 J, 100 Hz system with a beam quality …

… These kilowatt peak power, microjoule energy lasers are … electrical efficiency when pumped
by a laser diode array. The group … diode laser array to pump a Nd:YAG slab geometry laser. …

… diode lasers are the most efficient sources of optical power, and are crucial sources for a
wide range of applications, both directly and as pump sources for solid state and fiber lasers [1-…

… The diode arrays deliver ~1kJ at repetition rate 10Hz. Each diode array is comprised of
40 individual diode tiles where every tile generates >20 kilowatts of peak power. Each tile is …

… brightness of semiconductor laser diode arrays have been the … diode pumped solid-state
lasers (DPSSL), hybrid lasers and … kilowatts to even megawatts of power out of the laser diode …

… diode lasers serve as pump sources for the solid-state lasers… shown, diode laser arrays
provide a pulsed pump beam at … many 100’s of kilowatts of pump power in a narrow beam at high …

… diode arrays to improve the performance of the Nd:glass slab lasers used in Hampshire’s
laser-… We herein describe the diode pumping system and its use in pumping a large Nd:glass …