Double-end-pumped Nd:YVO4 slab laser at 1064 nm

Liu Xu; Hengli Zhang; Jingliang He; Xilong Yu; Li Cui; Yefei Mao; Xiao Sun; Xin Lin; Jichuan Xing; Jianguo Xin

doi:10.1364/AO.51.002012

Double-end-pumped Nd:YVO4 slab laser at 1064 nm

Appl Opt. 2012 Apr 20;51(12):2012-4. doi: 10.1364/AO.51.002012.

Authors

Liu Xu¹, Hengli Zhang, Jingliang He, Xilong Yu, Li Cui, Yefei Mao, Xiao Sun, Xin Lin, Jichuan Xing, Jianguo Xin

Affiliation

¹ School of Optoelectronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.

PMID: 22534909
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.002012

Abstract

We demonstrate a high-power laser diode stacks double-end-pumped Nd:YVO4 1064 nm slab laser with a folded stable-unstable hybrid resonator. An output power of 220 W was obtained at the pump power of 490 W with optical conversion efficiency of 44.9%. At the output power of 202 W, the M2 factors in the unstable direction and in the stable direction were 1.7 and 2.3, respectively.