Raymond J. Beach

Research.com Recognitions

• 2014 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to highaveragepower diodeendpumped lasers, including many breakthroughs, widely adopted by the laser community, that have helped push such lasers to higher average powers and efficiencies, and for leadership in developing diodepumped alkalivapor lasers, and models for coherent and incoherent photon echoes
• 2010 - SPIE Fellow
• 2004 - OSA Fellows For the development of diode-pumped solid-state lasers and the micro-channel cooled diode array.

Overview

Best Publications

• Analysis of the scalability of diffraction-limited fiber lasers and amplifiers to high average power

  Jay W Dawson;Michael J Messerly;Raymond J Beach;Miroslav Y Shverdin

  944
  Citations

• Resonance transition 795-nm rubidium laser

  William F. Krupke;Raymond J. Beach;V. Keith Kanz;Stephen A. Payne

  478
  Citations

• End-pumped continuous-wave alkali vapor lasers: experiment, model, and power scaling

  Raymond J. Beach;William F. Krupke;V. Keith Kanz;Stephen A. Payne

  413
  Citations

• 115-W Tm:YAG diode-pumped solid-state laser

  E.C. Honea;R.J. Beach;S.B. Sutton;J.A. Speth

  346
  Citations

• Incoherent Photon Echoes

  R. Beach;S. R. Hartmann

  252
  Citations

• Modular microchannel cooled heatsinks for high average power laser diode arrays

  R. Beach;W.J. Benett;B.L. Freitas;D. Mundinger

  237
  Citations

• High-power dual-rod Yb:YAG laser

  Eric C. Honea;Raymond J. Beach;Scott C. Mitchell;Jay A. Skidmore

  231
  Citations

• Multimode-diode-pumped gas (alkali-vapor) laser.

  Ralph H. Page;Raymond J. Beach;V. Keith Kanz;William F. Krupke

  201
  Citations

• Theory and optimization of lens ducts

  Raymond J. Beach

  195
  Citations

• THE MERCURY PROJECT: A HIGH AVERAGE POWER, GAS-COOLED LASER FOR INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY DEVELOPMENT

  A. Bayramian;P. Armstrong;E. Ault;R. Beach

  177
  Citations

• CW Theory of quasi-three level end-pumped laser oscillators

  Raymond J Beach

  177
  Citations

• An overview of LLNL high-energy short-pulse technology for advanced radiography of laser fusion experiments

  C. P. J. Barty;M. Key;J. Britten;R. Beach

  157
  Citations

• Properties of Cr:LiSrAlF 6 crystals for laser operation

  Stephen A. Payne;Larry K. Smith;Raymond J. Beach;Bruce H. T. Chai

  154
  Citations

• High-average-power 1-/spl mu/m performance and frequency conversion of a diode-end-pumped Yb:YAG laser

  C. Bibeau;R.J. Beach;S.C. Mitchell;M.A. Emanuel

  132
  Citations

• Fusion energy with lasers, direct drive targets, and dry wall chambers

  J.D. Sethian;M. Friedman;R.H. Lehmberg;M. Myers

  124
  Citations

• High-power planar dielectric waveguide lasers

  D P Shepherd;S J Hettrick;C Li;J I Mackenzie

  124
  Citations

• Analysis of an intracavity-doubled diode-pumped Q-switched Nd:YAG laser producing more than 100 W of power at 0.532 microm.

  Eric C. Honea;Christopher A. Ebbers;Raymond J. Beach;Joel A. Speth

  120
  Citations

• Demonstration of high‐performance silicon microchannel heat exchangers for laser diode array cooling

  D. Mundinger;R. Beach;W. Benett;R. Solarz

  119
  Citations

• Power scaling analysis of fiber lasers and amplifiers based on non-silica materials

  Jay W. Dawson;Michael J. Messerly;John E. Heebner;Paul H. Pax

  114
  Citations

• Time-delayed four-wave mixing using intense incoherent light.

  R Beach;D DeBeer;SR Hartmann

  112
  Citations

• High average powers diode pumped slab laser

  B.J. Comaskey;R. Beach;G. Albrecht;W.J. Benett

  112
  Citations

• High-average-power diode-pumped femtosecond Cr:LiSAF lasers

  D. Kopf;G. Zhang;M. Moser;M.A. Emanuel

  101
  Citations

• Optical absorption and stimulated emission of neodymium in yttrium orthosilicate

  R. Beach;M.D. Shinn;L. Davis;R.W. Solarz

  88
  Citations

• Comparison of Nd:phosphate glass, Yb:YAG and Yb:S-FAP laser beamlines for laser inertial fusion energy (LIFE) [Invited]

  A. C. Erlandson;S. M. Aceves;A. J. Bayramian;A. L. Bullington

  76
  Citations