The invention relates to a device for cooling a laser head by a flow of liquid. A tank of this liquid, is provided at the upper part of the device and has a membrane which is impermeable to the liquid and permeable to gases. Application to solid laser generators with triggered operation and a high repetition rate.

The cooling of the outer surface of the rod or other solid active element of a solid state laser is improved by causing coolant to travel in a plurality of, preferably streamline, helical flows extending around this surface in contact with it. The respective longitudinal components of a pair of the helical flows preferably extend in opposite directions along the surface to improve the uniformity of cooling.

The heat generated by a laser oscillator is partly radiated toward a frame. The radiated heat is partly absorbed by a cooling mechanism. The remaining heat is transferred through a chamber which dissipates part of the heat, to a heat insulating panel, which blocks most of the heat. The heat generated by the laser oscillator is partly radiated outwardly and reflected by a casing inwardly toward the frame. The reflected heat is partly absorbed by cooling mechanisms. The remaining heat is transferr...

A split-flow laser cooling assembly for providing separate cooling environments for the pumping medium and the laser medium. The device includes a generally transparent monoblock, a pumping medium for providing pump light, and a laser medium responsive to the pump light for generating laser energy. The monoblock is generally transparent and has a first open bore and a second open bore oriented with axis' parallel to each other. The first bore receives the pumping medium such that a pump cooling ...

In a device for cooling diode lasers, it is aimed to increase the heat transfer coefficient, with a low overall height of the device, in such a manner that the pressure losses occurring also effectively ensure that stacked heat sinks are operated in parallel in terms of flow. Channels arranged in superimposed planes are divided, in each plane, into groups which are flow-connected in series and, in order to be connected in series, open out into flow-connecting links which are common to the superi...

A laser suitable for operation in a power range above 0.5 watts comprises a compact housing block defining at least first and second recesses and formed with cooling fluid channels that debouch into the first recess. A pumping source and a laser crystal are mounted in the first recess of the laser housing and beam generating and beam guiding components are mounted in the second recess of the laser housing and define conduits that are connected to the cooling fluid channels.

To prevent a power supply from being covered with dew for circuit protection and to downsize or simplify a laser apparatus: An excitation lamp 10 and a YAG rod (laser medium) 12 of a laser oscillator are disposed within a chamber 14. Heat-generating electrical components or elements of the power supply, such as diodes D1-D6 of a three-phase full-wave rectifier circuit 24, IGBT 26, GTR 30 and output transistors of driver circuits 34 and 36 are mounted on a heat sink 46. A water-cooled cooling app...

The present method relates to exciting a gas dynamic CO.sub.2 laser, especially at high stagnation temperatures above 2500.degree. K and at a combustion chamber pressure above 50 bar. A liquid fuel and a liquid oxidizer are injected into the combustion chamber at these operating parameters and the produced laser gas is caused to flow through a Laval nozzle into a resonator. The flow cross sectional area of the Laval nozzle adjacent to the resonator is at least 100 times larger than the flow cros...

Various electro-optical modulator module designs are presented, which can provide for uniform, symmetric, and efficient heat removal for mode-locking, Q-switching, and/or cavity dumping operations. Heat can be uniformly extracted from an EO crystal without imposing undue stress, thereby preventing birefringence and laser beam degradation. A liquid-cooling approach can be used for high-duty operations, such as mode-locking operations. Efficient heat removal can prevent thermal run-away from elect...

A solid state laser amplifier architecture in which multiple zig-zag slab laser amplifiers (50) are stacked together, side-pumped using a common pump source (52, 54), and cooled with a common cooling system. The stack of zig-zag slabs (50) produces an array of sub-beams (62) that can be combined coherently into a single composite output beam. Variations in pump power absorption through the stack are mitigated by selection of doping levels for the slabs (50). The composite output beam is sufficie...