• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1989.02a
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• pp.1-4
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• 1989

The Alexandrite (Cr:BeAl2O4) laser is one of the promising tunable (vibronic) solid state laser developed recently in the near infrared region (700~800nm) of the spectrum. The thermal lensing effect of rod may effect stable mode osicillation of the solid state laser. A design procedure of the Alexandrite laser resonator considering rod thermal lensing effect and misaligment sensitivity of the resonator will be presented.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.1 no.6
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• pp.649-654
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• 2017

In this communication, we present an expression to determine thermal lensing in isotropic materials. The heat equation is analytically solved when a Gaussian spatial laser beam profile is introduced to a cylindrical geometry of optics using a complete set of Bessel functions. This expression permits explicit calculation of variation of focal length induced by thermal lensing and allows thermal effects for various material parameters on the optics. We applied our model to a high absorption material (Ti:sapphire) and also transparent material (thallium garnet or TGG) and found that the thermal lensing can be reduced more than 4 times by adjusting the laser beam waist and optics dimensions. Our analysis is completely general and applicable to any optical system.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.822-824
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• 1998

The simple and convenient measurement of the dissociation constant of an indicator, thymol blue, was achieved by using a portable diode-laser/fiber-optic thermal lensing spectroscopy, which consisted of a visible diode laser, a photodiode, and an optical fiber. It gives comparable results to the cited value obtained from a conventional UV/VIS spectroscopy.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.237-242
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• 1999

Taking into consideration the thermal lensing effects of laser rods, depolarization losses of laser beams induced by the thermal birefringence were calculated. The numerical model proposed for the calculation, which is based on the paraxial ray optics formulation and provides explicit expressions of optical path lengths for various optical elements, was described in detail. Calculated results were compared with those of Jones matrix formulation and experiments. The calculated results are in good agreement with experimental results.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.108-109
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• 1997

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.536-538
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• 1996

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.32-39
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• 1991

A 200W pulsed Nd: YAG laser for fine welding was developed. The important laser parameters such as laser peak power, average power, pulse width, and pulse energy for welding were studied. In order to obtain the sufficient laser power density for welding, thermal lensing effects were analyzed and a laser resonator with laser beam divergence was designed. The power supply unit was designed to support up to 7kW input. The pulse control unit was developed using a GTO thyristor and could control over 100kW input power to obtain 3.5kW peak power laser. Also due to the GTO thyristor the pulse width could be varied continuously from 0.1 to 20 msec and maximum repetition rate was as high as 300pps.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.138-139
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.30-31
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1988.06a
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• pp.1-8
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• 1988

상용 가공용 Nd:YAG 레이저의 특성 및 제원 을 분석하고 설계 시 고려하여야 할 thermal lensing 효과의 영향에 따른 출력특성의 제한에 대하여 기술하였으며 이를 토대로 200W급의 Nd:YAG 레이저를 설계하였다.