Tutorial 3

LASCAD Tutorial No. 3: Modeling an Yb:YAG thin disk laser Revised: January 19, 2009 © Copyright 2006 - 2009 LAS-CAD GmbHTable of Contents 1 Table of Contents 1 Starting LASCAD and Defining Pump Light Distribution .........................................................3 2 Defining Boundary Conditions Used with FEA..........................................................................5 3 Defining Options to Control FEA................................................................................................6 4 Showing the FEA Results............................................................................................................7 5 Creating a Parabolic Fit of the FEA Results................................................................................7 6 Inserting the Thermal Lens into the Mode Plot ...........................................................................8 7 Computing Laser Power Output ..................................................................................................9 8 The Beam Propagation Code (BPM).........................................................................................13 Note: The project file Tutorial_3.lcd of the example generated with this tutorial can be found in the directory Tutorials on the CD-ROM or after installation of LASCAD in the subdirectory Tutorials of the LASCAD application directory. You can copy this file to a working direc-tory and open it by double-click ...