掺铬的镁橄榄石晶体连续波可调谐激光器

本文报道了连续波Nd:YAG激光器泵浦掺铬镁橄榄石(Cr⁴⁺:forsterite)晶体获得了连续波可调谐运转,该激光器采用Nd:YAG激光器的1.06μm谱线泵浦Φ5×9mm的Cr⁴⁺:forsterite晶体.在吸收泵浦功率为8.7W时,得到1.05W的连续波输出.当在腔内放置色散元件后,其调谐范围是1186nm～1306nm,同时详细研究了输出功率随温度和输出镜透过率的变化特性.     

3.62 W of continuous-wave orange-yellow light generated by intra-cavity sum-frequency mixing of Nd:YVO4

A design of laser-diode array (LDA) end-pumped Nd:YVO₄ laser that generates simultaneous laser action at wavelengths 1064 and 1342 nm is presented. Using type-I critical phase matching (CPM) BiB₃O₆, 593.5 nm continuous-wave (cw) Orange-yellow laser is obtained by 1064 nm and 1342 nm in an intra-cavity sum-frequency mixing. The maximum laser output power of 3.62 W is obtained when an incident pump laser of 27.5 W is used. The optical-to-optical conversion is up to 13.2%. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest conversion efficiency at 593.5 nm in an intra-cavity sum-frequency Nd:YVO₄ laser.     

890 mW Diode Pumped Nd:YVO4 Intracavity-doubled Red Light Laser

A diode-pumped Nd3+:YVO4 emitting at 1342 nm and 671 nm was developed. Low concentration neodymium doped Nd:YVO4 shows excellent stability at 1342 nm. With a type-Ⅱ noncritical phase-matched LBO crystal as the intracavity frequency doubler, 890 mW of 671 nm light was obtained at 11.2 W incident pumping power, the optical-optical conversion efficiency is 7.9%.     

Nd:YVO4自受激拉曼激光器调Q锁模特性

利用Nd:YVO4激光晶体的自受激拉曼效应,结合Cr:YAG被动锁模技术和倍频技术,实现了结构紧凑的1176 nm和588 nm黄光锁模激光输出。激光器为LD端面泵浦,三镜折叠腔结构,并且采用了透过率为10%的输出镜。Nd:YVO4晶体长度为10 mm,Nd3+离子掺杂质量分数为0.2%,Cr:YAG晶体的初始透过率为67%。10 W激光泵浦时,1176 nm激光平均输出功率为123 mW,调Q包络宽度为6 ns,调Q包络内的锁模脉冲重复频率高达1 GHz。588.2 nm 黄光的平均输出功率为8 mW。     

LD抽运Nd:YVO4晶体中的上转换及其影响

对激光二极管抽运下Nd:YVO₄晶体中的上转换发光做了测量与分析,发现对应⁴G_7/2能级向下跃迁的上转换发光的主导机制为能量传递上转换.接着,对上转换对LD抽运Nd:YVO₄激光器运转的影响进行了理论分析,并特别讨论了上转换对热效应的影响. 关键词： 上转换 固体激光器 热效应     

LD-pumped passively Q-switched Nd:YVO4 infrared and green lasers

A laser diode directly end-pumped, passively Q-switched Nd:YVO₄/Cr:YAG laser is presented in this paper. With 600 mW incident pump laser, Q-switched 1064 nm laser with an average power of 138 mW, pulse width of 19.8 ns, repetition rate of 170.1 kHz and peak power of 40.96 W is obtained. When a KTP crystal was inserted into the cavity, Q-switched 532 nm laser with an average power of 56 mW, pulse width of 28.4 ns, repetition rate of 118.2 kHz and peak power of 16.7 W is obtained at last.     

Nd:YVO4自受激拉曼激光器调Q锁模特性

利用Nd:YVO4激光晶体的自受激拉曼效应,结合Cr:YAG被动锁模技术和倍频技术,实现了结构紧凑的1176 nm和588 nm黄光锁模激光输出。激光器为LD端面泵浦,三镜折叠腔结构,并且采用了透过率为10%的输出镜。Nd:YVO4晶体长度为10 mm,Nd3+离子掺杂质量分数为0.2%,Cr:YAG晶体的初始透过率为67%。10 W激光泵浦时,1176 nm激光平均输出功率为123 mW,调Q包络宽度为6 ns,调Q包络内的锁模脉冲重复频率高达1 GHz。588.2 nm 黄光的平均输出功率为8 mW。     

Theoretical modelling of mode formation in Tm:YVO4 microchip lasers

Theoretical investigations of mode formation in a Tm³⁺:YVO₄ microchip laser are presented. Based on these new computations, we find a fair agreement between theoretical and experimental results obtained within a large pump power range and for two different pump beam sizes.     

Mid-infrared,wide-tunable,continuous-wave Nd:YVO4/PPMgLN intracavity optical parametric oscillator

We obtain a continuous-wave (CW) Nd:YVO₄/PPMgLN intracavity singly resonant optical parametric oscillator (ISRO). The threshold value of the CW-ISRO system is only 2.8 W at 808 nm. When the pump power is 5.5 W, an idle laser output power of 410 mW, and a signal laser output power of 345 mW have been achieved. By changing the grating periods of the domain structure on the PPMgLN wafer, we enable a wide-tunable mid-infrared spectrum of 2.95–4.16 μm and near-infrared spectrum of 1.43–1.66 μm.     

Q-switching of a diode-pumped Nd : YVO4 laser with GaAs nonlinear output coupler

Passive Q-switching of a diode-pumped Nd : YVO₄ laser was demonstrated using GaAs as an output coupler and as a saturable absorber. When pumped with a 3-W diode laser at 809 nm, the highly compact laser produced 12-μJ pulses of 2.2 ns in duration at 1.064 μm in a single transverse mode, corresponding to a peak power of 5.6 kW.     

Efficient and compact intracavity-frequency-doubled YVO4/Nd:YVO4/KTP laser through analysis of the interaction length

In this paper, a stable end-pumped intracavity-frequency-doubled green laser was demonstrated. The interaction length of different pump systems before setting up the experiment was analyzed in order to find out an effective pump system. The experimental results indicate that the pump system in our configuration is beneficial to the efficient CW Nd lasers. A continue-grown composite crystal YVO₄/Nd:YVO₄, with Nd³⁺ concentration doping of 0.3 at.%, is used as laser medium. With an incident pump power of 27.5 W, as high as 7.2 W of CW output power at 532 nm was achieved. The optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 26.2% was obtained in CW modes with a flat-flat cavity design.     

Efficient fourth harmonic UV generation of passively Q-switched Nd:GdVO4/Cr:YAG lasers

A coherent UV passively Q-switched diode pumped Nd:GdVO₄ laser source is proposed. During pumping of the β-BBO crystal a stable light with power 0.6 W with wavelength 532 nm and pulse duration 9 ns at frequency repetition 16 kHz was applied. The output UV light has a power about 79 mW at wavelength 266 nm during diode-pumping with 8 W incident light.     

Diode-end-pumped composite Nd:YVO4 yellow laser based on intracavity frequency-doubled self-Raman laser

We report an intracavity frequency-doubled Q-switched self-Raman yellow laser at 587 nm. A composite Nd:YVO₄ crystal was utilized as self-Raman gain medium. The maximum average output power of yellow light obtained was 1.5 W at the incident pump power of 30 W and at a repetition rate of 50 kHz, corresponding to the optical conversion efficiency of 5%. The shortest pulse width, the maximum pulse energy and the highest peak power were measured to be 5.8 ns, 46.7 μJ and 5.9 kW, respectively.     

Diode-end-pumped solid-state ultraviolet laser based on intracavity third-harmonic generation of 1.06 μm in YCa4O(BO3)3 crystal

Intracavity type-I sum-frequency mixing of 1.06 μm and 532 nm with a (θ,)=(106°,77.2°)-cut YCOB crystal was performed in a compact laser-diode-pumped solid-state laser. Three type-II phase-matching KTP crystals with different length were used to generate 532 nm light by frequency-doubling of 1.06 μm. The 355 nm output power was measured with the three KTP crystals for Q-switched and continuous-wave (CW) operation, respectively. The maximum ultraviolet output power of 1305 μW was obtained with a 15 mm KTP crystal for CW operation, while the maximum ultraviolet average output power of 124 mW was obtained with a 10 mm KTP crystal for Q-switched operation.     

Simultaneous dual-wavelength CW operation using F3/2–I13/2 transitions in Nd:YVO4 crystal

We experimentally demonstrate a dual-wavelength continuous wave (CW) Nd:YVO₄ laser simultaneously operating at 1342 and 1386 nm. A total output power of 439 mW is achieved when the laser is diode-end-pumped at an incident pump power of 2.4 W, indicating a slope efficiency of 35.6%. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time that simultaneous dual-wavelength CW operation at 1342 and 1386 nm is reported.     

Spectral characteristics of 2 μm microchip Tm:YVO4 and Tm,Ho:YLF lasers

In this paper, we present experimental results concerning the spectral emission obtained with two microchip lasers emitting in the 2 μm range. We show that high efficiency is achieved in both cases at room temperature. Nevertheless, while Tm:YVO₄ oscillates always on longitudinal modes and may easily be single frequency with high power, Tm:Ho:YLF is always emitting several transverse modes for any pumping conditions with temperatures between 13°C and 35°C. This result is interpreted considering the gain of these two amplifier media and the mode guiding resulting from the thermal properties of the two host materials.     

Continuous-wave and passively Q-switched Nd:GdVO4 lasers at 1.06 μm end-pumped by laser-diode-array

We demonstrated a diode-end-pumped continuous-wave and passively Q-switched Nd:GdVO₄ laser operating at 1.06 μm wavelength with a three-mirror folded resonator. The maximum continuous-wave output power of 8.18 W was obtained at the incident pump power of 22.5 W, with the corresponding optical conversion efficiency of 36.4%. For Q-switched operation, the maximum average output power was measured to be 4.64 W with the corresponding optical conversion efficiency of 25.8%, when the initial transmission of Cr⁴⁺:YAG crystal was 90%. The shortest pulse width of 83 ns, the largest pulse energy of 20.7 μJ and the highest peak power of 246.7 W were obtained when the Cr⁴⁺:YAG crystal with an initial transmission of 85% was used.     

Laser properties of different Nd-doped concentration Nd:YVO4 laser crystals

The laser outputs of 1.26, 0.95, 0.5 and 0.32 at% Nd-doped concentrations in Nd:YVO₄ crystal samples were performed under high pumping power of laser diode. The reason of different Nd-doped concentrations in Nd:YVO₄ crystals influencing on the laser output properties was explained. The intracavity double frequency laser outputs of Nd:YVO₄ crystal at 532 and 671 nm were also performed. Our experimental results show that the optimum Nd-doped concentration in Nd:YVO₄ crystal is about 0.5 at% under a pumping power of 30 W.     

Compact CW 485-nm laser based on sum-frequency mixing of diode pumped Nd:LuVO<Subscript>4</Subscript>-Yb:YAG lasers

We report for the first time a continuous-wave (CW) coherent radiation at 485 nm by intracavity sum-frequency generation of 916 nm Nd:LuVO₄ laser and 1030 nm Yb:YAG laser. Blue laser is obtained by using a doubly cavity, type-II critical phase matching KTP crystal sum-frequency mixing. With total pump power of 30.2 W, TEM₀₀ mode blue laser at 485 nm of 179 mW is obtained. The blue power stability in 30 min is better than 3%.     

Thermal effects of the diode end-pumped Nd:YVO4 slab

The thermal effects of the diode end-pumped Nd:YVO₄ slab laser crystal are investigated both analytically and numerically. The theoretical model is established with considering the divergence of the pump beam in the slab. A detailed theoretical analysis of the temperature, stress and the focal length of thermal lens are presented. Using 3D finite element analysis, an accurate numerical solution based on the theoretical model is achieved. Our analysis includes the thermal fracture damage of the thermally and optically anisotropic slab and the predicated values are compared with the experimental results.