Electro-optically Q-switched Nd:YVO4 slab laser with a high repetition rate and a short pulse width

Electro-optically Q-switched Nd:YVO4 slab laser with a high repetition rate and a short pulse width

We report on a compact and highly efficient diode-end-pumped TEM00 Nd:YVO4 slab laser with an output power of 103 W and beam quality M2 < or = 1.5. The optical-to-optical efficiency was 41.5%. In electro-optically Q-switched operation, 83 W of average power at a pulse-repetition rate of 50 kHz wi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics letters 2003-01, Vol.28 (2), p.87-89
Hauptverfasser: Du, Keming, Li, Daijun, Zhang, Hengli, Shi, Peng, Wei, Xiaoyu, Diart, Robert
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We report on a compact and highly efficient diode-end-pumped TEM00 Nd:YVO4 slab laser with an output power of 103 W and beam quality M2 < or = 1.5. The optical-to-optical efficiency was 41.5%. In electro-optically Q-switched operation, 83 W of average power at a pulse-repetition rate of 50 kHz with a pulse length of 11.3 ns was obtained. At a pulse-repetition rate of 10 kHz, 5.6 mJ of pulse energy, and 870 kW of peak power were measured.
ISSN:0146-9592
DOI:10.1364/OL.28.000087