We report a compact and highly stable 1064-nm electro-optic Q-switched laser operating at the repetition rate of 1 kHz. A composite Nd:YAG crystal was used as the gain media and the cavity length was 105 mm. Under the average pump power of 11 W, the output power achieved 2.404 W with the pulse width of 4.558 ns, corresponding to the maximum peak power of 0.527 MW and the optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 21.85%. The slope efficiency reached 42.69%. The beam quality in the horizontal ( |
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Q switched lasers
Pulsed laser operation
Nd:YAG lasers
Crystals
Laser crystals
Electro optics
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