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A 123 W Nd:YVO4 slab laser with high beam quality output
Received date: 04 May 2009
Accepted date: 05 Aug 2009
Published date: 05 Dec 2009
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The laser diode (LD) partially end-pumped slab laser with hybrid resonator is a kind of novel solid-state laser that can achieve high power with high beam quality. Using this configuration, taking Nd:YVO4 as the slab gain media, a 123 W output was obtained when the pumping power was 265 W, and the optical-to-optical efficiency and slope efficiency were 46.4% and 52.4%, respectively. The beam quality M2 factors in the unstable direction and the stable direction were 1.3 at the output power of 98 W.
Key words: laser diode (LD); slab laser; Nd:YVO4; hybrid resonator; 1064 nm laser
Yang LIU , Hengli ZHANG , Ying YAN , Huaijin ZHANG , Jingliang HE , Jianguo XIN . A 123 W Nd:YVO4 slab laser with high beam quality output[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2009 , 2(4) : 407 -409 . DOI: 10.1007/s12200-009-0031-y
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