Laser-diode-array-pumped pulsed Nd:YVO4 mini-disk laser

Zhuang Zhuo; Tow Chong Chong; Chin Wee Kwek

doi:10.1117/12.344133

7 August 1998 Laser-diode-array-pumped pulsed Nd:YVO4 mini-disk laser

Zhuang Zhuo, Tow Chong Chong, Chin Wee Kwek

Proceedings Volume 3549, High-Power Lasers: Solid State, Gas, Excimer, and Other Advanced Lasers II; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.344133
Event: Photonics China '98, 1998, Beijing, China

Abstract

A pulsed Nd:YVO₄ mini disc laser pumped by a laser diode array is reported in this paper based on the end-pumping configuration with the linear plane-parallel cavity and the V- folded cavities respectively. The input-output properties and the output beam are characterized, analyzed and compared. The optical-to-optical conversion efficiency is about 51% for the plane-parallel cavity, 48% for the V-folded plane-plane cavity and high up to 68% for the V-folded concave-plane cavity. The V-folded cavities offer good TEM₀₀ mode while the linear plane-parallel cavity operates in a multi-mode statue.

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Zhuang Zhuo, Tow Chong Chong, and Chin Wee Kwek "Laser-diode-array-pumped pulsed Nd:YVO4 mini-disk laser", Proc. SPIE 3549, High-Power Lasers: Solid State, Gas, Excimer, and Other Advanced Lasers II, (7 August 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.344133

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