• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 8, Issue 5, 499 (2010)
Xin Yu, Fei Chen, Renpeng Yan, Xudong Li, Junhua Yu, and Zhonghua Zhang
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  • National Key Laboratory of Tunable Laser Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL20100805.0499 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xin Yu, Fei Chen, Renpeng Yan, Xudong Li, Junhua Yu, Zhonghua Zhang. High power diode-pumped 914-nm Nd:YVO4 laser[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(5): 499 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A high power continuous-wave (CW) 914-nm Nd:YVO4 laser at room temperature is presented. Using an end-pumped structure and employing an 808-nm diode-laser as the pump source, the maximum output power of 15.5 W of the 914-nm laser is achieved at the absorbed pump power of 40.2 W, with a corre-sponding average slope efficiency \mathrm s=65.6%. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest output power of diode-pumped 914-nm laser. A beam quality factor M2=2.8 at the output power of 15 W is measured by using the traveling knife-edge method.
    Xin Yu, Fei Chen, Renpeng Yan, Xudong Li, Junhua Yu, Zhonghua Zhang. High power diode-pumped 914-nm Nd:YVO4 laser[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(5): 499
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