Optically pumped solid-state lasers.

摘要

An optically pumped solid laser (10) that uses a corner cube or rectangular prism as its solid laser medium, containing end faces (10A,B,C,D) through which a semiconductor (LD12) pumping light beam is applied to the medium. The solid laser medium contains at least one kind of coating formed on at least a part of an end face, such that the end face acts as a resonator and/or output mirror. Optical fibers (38,40) may be connected to the end faces for inputting or outputting light beams. Non-linear crystals (42,44,46,48,50) in waveguide form may be coupled to the outputting end face of the medium, specifically crystals of either SHG, THG, FHG, or parameteric; and KTP, beta -BaB2O4, KNbP3, or MgO doped LiNbO3.