Thin-Disk Laser System Operating Above 10 Kw At Near Fundamental Mode Beam Quality

We report on a thin-disk laser system with more than 10 kW of output power and a beam quality of M-2 =1.76 at an overall optical-to-optical efficiency of 51%. The system consists of two thin-disk laser oscillators and a thin-disk multi-pass amplifier system. To reach high output powers while maintaining good beam quality, the output beams of two identical laser oscillators are polarization-combined. Subsequently, the beam is amplified in a multi-pass system. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest output power achieved for a thin-disk laser system with a beam quality close to fundamental mode. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America