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Thermal Lensing Measurement and Laser Performance of End-Pumped Lightly Doped Nd:GdVO4 Crystal |
LIU Jun-hai;SHAO Zong-shu;MENG Xian-lin;ZHANG Huai-jin;ZHU Li;JIANG Min-hua |
National Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100 |
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LIU Jun-hai, SHAO Zong-shu, MENG Xian-lin et al 1999 Chin. Phys. Lett. 16 814-815 |
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Abstract The thermal lensing effect generated in an end-pumped lightly doped Nd:GdVO4 crystal was found to be considerably weaker than that in Nd:YVO4 having the same Nd3+ concentration. Consequently, the laser performance of Nd:GdVO4 at high pump powers over 20 W was found to be superior to that of Nd:YVO4. TEM00 mode cw radiation of 14.3 W at 1.06μm was achieved with an optical conversion efficiency of 55%, and average slope efficiency of 62%.
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42.55.Rz
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Published: 01 November 1999
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42.55.Rz
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(Doped-insulator lasers and other solid state lasers)
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