Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées – Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS URA 1406, Chemin de la Hunière, 91761 Palaiseau Cedex, France
Abstract:
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.