A 5.9-mJ 500-Hz Electro-Optic Q-Switched 1053 nm Nd:LiLuF4 Laser
YANG Qi1,2, ZHU Xiao-Lei1**, LU Ting-Ting1, MA Jian1, HANG Yin3, CHEN Wei-Biao1
1Shanghai Key Laboratory of All Solid-State Laser and Applied Techniques, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 3Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800
Abstract：An efficient and high power 1053 nm electro-optic Q-switched Nd:LiLuF4 laser, end-pumped by two fiber coupled laser diodes at wavelength 806 nm, is reported for the first time. With an incident pump power of 24.4 W, the maximum laser output power of 7.3 W is achieved in free-running mode, and the optical conversion efficiency is 29.8%. For the Q-switched operation, the shortest pulse width of 17 ns is obtained at the pulse repetition rate of 500 Hz, corresponding to the pulse energy of 5.9 mJ with the peak power of 0.35 MW.
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