The aim of the invention is to obtain a laser system with the highest
possible power that operates as stably as possible. This object is
achieved in the case of a laser system by the laser radiation field
passing through at least two laser-active solid bodies of identical
material disposed one following the other in the direction of its beam
axis, by the pumping radiation guide being formed in such a way that it
feeds into each of the solid bodies the first partial radiation field via
one end face and the second partial radiation field via the other end
face and by the pumping radiation guide being formed in such a way that a
pumping power fed into each of the at least two solid bodies by the two
partial radiation fields can be adjusted in such a way that the effects
on the laser radiation field of thermal lenses produced by the pumping
power in each of the at least two solid bodies are substantially
identical.