Testing 50 kW lasers in weapon systems - Laser Focus World
Aside from being optically pumped by diode lasers, diode-pumped alkali lasers (DPALs) are quite different than the three other types being scaled up under HELSI. The diodes in DPALs pump alkali metal vapors on transitions that have exceptionally small quantum defects; a rubidium DPAL emits 98% of the energy it absorbs from a 780 nm pump photon ...