The analytical investigation of temperature

distribution in off-central diode-pumped lasers

 

P ELAHI*, A TAGHAVI and A GHARAATI

Department of Physics, Payame Noor University, Shiraz, Iran

*Corresponding author. E-mail: pelahi@spnu.ac.ir

 

Abstract. The influence of displacement of the pump source with

respect to the crystal center on the thermal behavior of the laser

crystal is studied analytically. We consider the pump energy to be

deposited into the pump region which has been slightly displaced with

respect to the crystal center. An analytical expression for

temperature distribution for such off-central diode-pumped laser is

investigated. The results are then applied to the  Nd\,:\,YAG and

Nd\,:\,YVO$_4$ laser crystals and compared with the conventional

diode-pumped lasers. We showed that in this special case, the

temperature distribution equation in the off-central pumping convert

to the conventional central pump scheme.

 

Keywords. Off-central diode-pumped; diode-pumped; temperature distribution.

 

PACS Nos 42.55.f;  42.55.Xi