4.6-W compact and efficient NdAl_3 （BO_3）_4 thin-disk laser

The capabilities of a compact and highly efficient NdAl 3 (BO 3) 4 (NAB) thin-disk laser are demonstrated.Under a pump power of 8.2 W,the NAB disk laser delivers an average output power of 4.6 W at 1 063 nm,with a slope efficiency of 64%.The difficulty and complexity of the thin-disk laser design are minimized by the high absorbance of the NAB crystal.To reduce the thermal effect,low repetition frequency pulsed 885 nm direct pumping is considered an efficient way to realize a compact and highly efficient NAB thin-disk laser.     

High-Efficiency High-Power Nd：YAG Laser under 885 nm Laser Diode Pumping

A high-efficiency high-power Nd：YAG laser under 885 nm laser diode （LD） pumping is demonstrated. The laser crystal is carefully designed, and the overlapping between the pump modes and the laser modes is optimized. The maximum output power at 1064 nm is 87W under the absorbed pump power 127.7 W, corresponding to a slope efficiency of 72.4% and an optical-optical efficiency of 68.1%. The optical-optical efficiency is 58.4% for the pump power emitted directly from the LD. To our best knowledge, this is the maximal optical-optical conversion efficiency obtained for the LD end-pumped Nd：YAG lasers so far.     

Passively mode-locked grown-together composite YVO4 /Nd:YVO4 crystal laser with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror under 880-nm direct pumping

A passively mode-locked grown-together composite YVO 4 /Nd:YVO 4 crystal laser is demonstrated with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror by 880-nm laser-diode direct pumping.Under the absorbed pump power of 24.9 W,a maximum output power of 10.5 W at the repetition rate of 77 MHz is obtained,corresponding to the optical-optical conversion efficiency of 42.1% and the slope efficiency of 53.4%.The pulse width measured is 33 ps at the output power of 10 W.