All-solid-state Nd:Gd<Subscript>0.18</Subscript>Y<Subscript>0.82</Subscript>VO<Subscript>4</Subscript>-LBO green laser at 532 nm

We report a continuous-wave (CW) coherent green radiation at 532 nm by intracavity frequency doubling generation of 1064 nm Nd:Gd_0.18Y_0.82VO₄ laser. With incident pump power of 18.2 W, output power of 1.08 W at 532 nm has been obtained using a 5 mm-long KTP crystal. The optical conversion efficiency was up to 5.9%. At the output power level of 1.08 W, the output stability is better than 5%. The beam quality M² values were equal to 1.26 and 1.12 in X and Y directions, respectively.     

Efficient Nd:Y0.5Gd0.5VO4-KTiOPO4 green laser under diode pumping into the emitting level 4F3/2

We report a green laser at 532 nm generation by intracavity frequency doubling of a continuous wave (cw) laser operation of a 1064 nm Nd:Y_0.5Gd_0.5VO₄ laser under diode pumping into the emitting level ⁴ F _3/2. A KTiOPO₄ (KTP) crystal, cut for critical type-II phase matching at room temperature is used for second harmonic generation (SHG) of the laser. At an incident pump power of 17.8 W, as high as 4.21 W of cw output power at 532 nm is achieved. The optical-to-optical conversion efficiency is up to 23.6%, and the fluctuation of the green output power was better than 2.8% in the given 30 min.     

高稳定LD泵浦腔内倍频Nd∶YVO4/KTP连续绿光激光器

设计出一种能够较好地补偿激光晶体热效应的激光谐振腔，实现了高稳定LD单端泵浦KTP腔内倍频Nd∶YVO₄连续绿光激光器.当晶体吸收的泵浦功率为24.56 W时，532 nm激光功率达到5.3 W，光-光转换效率达到21.6％，激光模式为TEM00模.在输出功率5W左右时，激光器1 h功率不稳定度优于0.6％     

Efficient 532 nm laser using high gray-tracking resistance KTP crystal

A LD end-pumped acoustic-optic Q-switched intracavity frequency-doubled Nd:YVO₄ laser was demonstrated. It uses a high gray-tracking resistance KTP crystal as nonlinear optical crystal. The output characteristics of 532 nm green laser using different doping concentrations and cavity configurations were investigated. With the pump power of 27.5 W, a maximum average power of 13 W at 532 nm was achieved at a pulse repetition rate of 80 kHz, corresponding to the optical-to-optical efficiency of 47.3%. The pulse width is 30 ns and single pulse energy is up to 162.5 μJ. This work is a significant exploration for using a high gray-tracking resistance KTP crystal to generate highly efficient frequency-doubled green laser.     

Diode-pumped Nd:CaYAlO<Subscript>4</Subscript>-KTP intracavity-doubled green laser at 540 nm

It is reported that efficient continuous-wave (CW) green laser generation at 540 nm in a KTP crystal at type-II phase matching direction performed with a diode-pumped Nd:CaYAlO₄ laser. With incident pump power of 18.2 W, output power of 324 mW at 540 nm has been obtained using a 5 mm-long KTP crystal. At the output power level of 324 mW, the output stability is better than 2.8%. The beam quality M ² values were equal to 1.34 and 1.22 in X and Y directions, respectively.     

Diode-Side-Pumped Passively Q-Switched Mode-Locked 532 nm Laser with a Nd:YAG/Cr4+:YAG/YAG Composite Crystal

We present a diode-side-pumped Q-switched mode-locked (QML) laser operating at 532 nm for the first time employing a composite crystal Nd:YAG/Cr⁴⁺:YAG/YAG and a KTP. The experimental results show that, using a suitable cavity and crystals, one can obtain high-quality QML laser output at 532 nm with a side-pumped system. We measure and analyze the QML performance of the fundamental frequency laser and the green laser. Under a pump power of 127 W, we obtain a QML laser operating at 532 nm with an average power of 4.97 W and a repetition rate of 0.2 GHz for the mode-locked pulses; the corresponding depth of modulation is close to 100%.     

Continuous-wave passively mode-locked Nd:YVO<Subscript>4</Subscript>/KTP green laser with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror

A diode-pumped passively mode-locked low-doped Nd:YVO₄ green laser with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) and an intracavity frequency-doubling KTP crystal is demonstrated. In order to efficiently release the thermal effect, a low-doped Nd:YVO₄ crystal with the Nd³⁺ concentration of 0.1 at % is employed as the gain medium. The maximum average output power of 3.1 W at 532 nm with a repetition rate of 102 MHz is obtained under the pump power of 25 W, corresponding to an optical conversion efficiency of 12.4%. The 532 nm mode locked pulse width is estimated to be approximately 6.1 ps.     

Efficient and compact intracavity-frequency-doubled Nd:GdVO4/KTP laser end-pumped by a fiber-coupled laser diode

A compact and efficient diode-pumped intracavity-frequency-doubled Nd:GdVO₄/KTP green laser is demonstrated with a flat–flat cavity design. With a 1.3 at. % Nd³⁺-doped GdVO₄ crystal and pumped at the weak-absorption peak of 806 nm, the second-harmonic output power at 532 nm was measured to be 1.95 W at an incident pump power of 8.4 W, corresponding to an optical conversion efficiency of 23.2%. The output characteristic at the fundamental wavelength of 1.063 μm was investigated with two different pump wavelengths. More than 4.5-W output power was generated when the laser was pumped at 806.2 nm. Received: 26 July 2000 / Revised version: 18 September 2000 / Published online: 7 February 2001     

High Average Power, Compact Passively Q-Switched 532 nm Green Laser on Nd:YAG/Cr4+:YAG Composite Crystal

We design a passively Q-switched intracavity frequency-doubled 532 nm laser using Nd:YAG/Cr⁴⁺:YAG composite crystal and type II phase matching KTP crystal. Under 13.97 W pump power, the average output power of the laser elaborated is up to 681 mW, with 200 ns pulse width and 9.1 kHz pulse repetition rate.     

50.2W high stability and high compact all-solid-state green laser with extra-cavity frequency-doubling at 500 Hz

A 50.2W high pulse energy green laser system at 532 nm was demonstrated by extra-cavity second-harmonic generation (SHG). The fundamental laser was based on laser diode (LD) side-pumped MOPA Q-switched technology, producing 79W of average power at the repetition rate of 500 Hz, while the pulse width was 6 ns. Type-II angle phasematched KTiOPO₄ (KTP) crystal was used as the nonlinear crystal. The 50.2W average power of 532 nm laser was obtained with the divergence angle less than 0.6 mrad and the corresponding peak power of 16.7MW. The optical frequency conversion efficiency from fundamental to green laser was up to 63.5%. The measured output power fluctuation was less than 0.38% in one hour operation.     

Green-Beam Generation of 40W by Use of an Intracavity Frequency-Doubled Diode Side-Pumped Nd:YAG Laser

A cw diode side-pumped Nd：YAO laser is frequency doubled to 532nm with an intracavity KTP crystal in a Vshaped arrangement, achieving an output power of 40 W corresponding to an optical-optical conversion efficiency of 9.7%. The instabilities and the M2-parameters of the laser are measured at different output powers after the beam is filtered.     

LD侧面泵浦Nd∶GdVO4 532 nm绿光激光器

为了获得高功率窄脉宽532 nm绿光激光输出,通过高重复频率声光驱动调Q技术和LD侧面泵浦Nd∶GdVO4技术,获得高功率线偏振1 064 nm激光输出。采用内腔倍频方式,对非线性晶体KTP进行频率变换,实现高功率窄脉宽绿光激光输出。在电源输入电流30 A,调Q驱动频率10 kHz的条件下,获得最高功率30 W线偏振1 064 nm激光输出,脉宽30 ns,倍频KTP晶体获得23.4 W的532 nm绿光输出,1 064 nm到532 nm转化效率为78%。实验结果表明:通过声光调Q技术和LD侧面泵浦Nd∶GdVO4技术,可以实现高功率线偏振窄脉宽1 064 nm激光输出,倍频非线性晶体KTP可获得高功率窄脉宽532 nm激光。     

Highly efficient intracavity frequency doubling 532-nm laser based on the gray tracking resistance KTP crystal

Based on the gray tracking resistance (GTR) KTP crystals, the performance of a high efficient and compact intracavity frequency doubling 532 nm laser was investigated. The gray tracking test indicated that the KTP used in our experiment had good resistance to the gray tracking. The absorption coefficient of this GTR-KTP at 1064 and 532 nm were measure to be 5 × 10⁻³%/cm and 0.2%/cm, respectively. The maximum average output power of 40.6 W at 532 nm was obtained at the repetition frequency of 10 kHz for the 10 mm long GTR-KTP, which corresponded to 22.6% pump-to-green conversion efficiency. The effective conversion efficiency from the Q-switched 1064 nm to the green power at 10 kHz repetition rate was as high as 86.4%.     

Stable High Power and High Beam Quality Diode-Side-Pumped Continuous-Wave Intracavity Frequency-Doubled Nd:YAG Laser

We report a stable high power and high beam quality diode-side-pumped cw green laser from intracavity frequency-doubled Nd： YAG laser with KTP. By using a L-shaped concave-convex resonator, designed with two Nd：YAG rods birefringence compensation, a large fundamental mode size in the laser crystal and a tight focus in the nonlinear crystal could be obtained simultaneously. The green laser delivers a maximum 532nm output power of 23.2 W. Under 532nm output power of 20.9 W, the beam quality factor is measured to be 4.1, and the fluctuation of the output power is less than 1.4% in an hour.     

A comparative study on dual colour soft aperture cascaded second-order mode-locking with different nonlinear optical crystals

A comparative study in terms of optimized output power and stability is made on cascaded second-order nonlinear optical mode-locking with KTP, BBO and LBO crystals for both 1064 nm and 532 nm. Large nonlinear optical phase shift achieved in a non-phase-matched second harmonic generating crystal, is transformed into amplitude modulation through soft aperturing the nonlinear cavity mode variation at the laser gain medium to mode-lock a Nd:YVO4 laser. The laser delivers stable dual wavelength cw mode-locked pulse train with pulse duration 10.3 ps and average power of 1.84 W and 255 mW at 1064 nm and 532 nm respectively for the optimum performance in type-II KTP crystal. The exceptional stability achieved with KTP is accounted by simulating the mode-size variation with phase mismatch.     

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.     

LD抽运的Nd:YAG陶瓷/KTP绿光激光器

报道了一种LD端面抽运Nd:YAG陶瓷、KTP腔内倍频的全固态连续波绿光激光器.当抽运功率为21.6 W时,1064 nm基频输出达到11.3 W,光—光转换效率为52.3%.采用Ⅱ类切割的KTP晶体作为腔内倍频介质,在直腔结构下获得了最大功率为1.86 W的532　nm绿光输出,光—光转换效率为7%.输出光斑具有高斯型强度分布,1 W输出时的M²因子约为1.7. 关键词： 全固态绿光激光器 Nd:YAG陶瓷 KTP倍频 直腔     

Continuous-wave Nd:YVO4/KTiOPO4 green laser at 542 nm under diode pumping into the emitting level

We report a green laser at 542 nm generation by intracavity frequency doubling of a continuous wave (CW) laser operation of a 1086 nm Nd:YVO₄ laser under 880 nm diode pumping into the emitting level ⁴ F _3/2. A KTiOPO₄ (KTP) crystal, cut for critical type I phase matching at room temperature is used for second harmonic generation of the laser. At an incident pump power of 14.5 W, as high as 1.33 W of CW output power at 542 nm is achieved. The optical-to-optical conversion efficiency is up to 9.2%, and the fluctuation of the green output power was better than 3.8% in the given 30 min.     

500.5-nm blue-green laser based on sum-frequency mixing of diode pumped neodymium lasers

We report for the first time a continuous-wave (CW) coherent radiation at 500.5 nm by intracavity sum-frequency generation of 1063 nm Nd:GdVO₄ laser and 946 nm Nd:YAG laser. Blue-green laser is obtained by using a doubly cavity, type-II critical phase matching KTiOPO₄ (KTP) crystal sum-frequency mixing. With total pump power of 27.8 W, TEM₀₀ mode blue-green laser at 500.5 nm of 421 mW is obtained. At the output power level of 421 mW, the blue-green power stability is better than 2.8% and laser beam quality M ² factor is 1.37.     

High-Power passively Q-switched 532 nm green laser by using Nd:YAG/Cr4+:YAG composite crystal

This paper reported a passively Q-switched 532 nm green laser of LD pumped V cavity structure by using Nd:YAG/Cr⁴⁺:YAG composite crystal and the type II phase matching KTP crystal. Under 19.4 W pump power, the average power of the laser pulse up to 1.83 W, with the pulse width of 93.2 ns and repetition frequency of 9.1 kHz.