Recent developments in high power thin disk lasers at TRUMPF Laser

Abstract

This paper highlights the latest advances of disk laser technology at TRUMPF. The disk laser combines unique properties, especially high output brilliance (at the lowest pump brilliance requirements of any high power platform), power scalability and insensitivity to back reflections. In the latest generation of CW disk lasers, 6kW are extracted from one disk in an industrial product at beam qualities suitable for cutting and welding. Laboratory results with up to 4 kW laser power at nearly diffraction limited beam quality (M²=1.38) and 8 kW with a beam quality of 3 mm mrad from a single disk and even higher output power levels with lower beam quality will be presented. Finally, results of a frequency doubled CW disk laser will be shown.