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8 September 1999 Thermal lens stabilized flat-flat resonator 15-W cw Nd:YVO4 laser end-pumped by a diode laser array
Junhai Liu, Guangming Li, Changqing Wang, Zongshu Shao, Minhua Jiang
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Proceedings Volume 3862, 1999 International Conference on Industrial Lasers; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.361171
Event: International Symposium on Industrial Lasers, 1999, Wuhan, China
Abstract
A diode-laser-array end-pumped CW Nd:YVO4 laser, formed with a flat-flat resonator, and capable of producing great than 15 W of CW radiation, has been demonstrated. At the incident pump power of 22 W, the output power of 13.22 W was obtained, resulting in an optical conversion efficiency of 60.1%, while the slope efficiency was determined to be 64.8%. It is shown that the misalignment sensitivity characteristic of flat-flat resonators can be considerably improved by the stabilizing effect of the pump-induced thermal lens.
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Junhai Liu, Guangming Li, Changqing Wang, Zongshu Shao, and Minhua Jiang "Thermal lens stabilized flat-flat resonator 15-W cw Nd:YVO4 laser end-pumped by a diode laser array", Proc. SPIE 3862, 1999 International Conference on Industrial Lasers, (8 September 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.361171
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KEYWORDS
Resonators

Continuous wave operation

Semiconductor lasers

Laser resonators

Neodymium lasers

Crystals

Laser crystals

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