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16.4 W laser output at 1.34 µm with twin Nd:YVO4 crystals and double-end-pumping structure

✍ Scribed by C. Lu; M. Gong; Q. Liu; L. Huang; F. He


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
101 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
1612-2011

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✦ Synopsis


High-power high-beam-quality 1.34 μm continuous-wave laser with twin Nd:YVO~4~ crystals pumped by four fiber-coupled laser diodes, which constructed a double-end-pumping structure, is reported. With total 60 W pumping power incident, the highest 16.4 W output laser power was generated, the slope efficiency and optical efficiency were measured as better than 30.0% and 27.3%, respectively. With 12 W laser output, the beam quality was measured to be better than two times diffraction-limit and the instability of laser output was determined to be better than 1% over an hour time.