Theoretical and experimental investigations of a diode-pumped high-power continuous-wave 912 nm Nd:GdVO4 laser operation at room temperature |
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Authors: | Fei Chen Xin Yu Xudong Li Renpeng Yan Cheng Wang Ming Luo Jiangbo Peng Zhonghua Zhang Junhua Yu |
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Affiliation: | National Key Laboratory of Tunable Laser Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China |
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Abstract: | Based on the rate equation of Nd3+-doped quasi-three-level lasers, a theoretical model of diode-end-pumped continuous-wave 912 nm Nd:GdVO4 laser is presented. Lasing threshold and slope efficiency considering reabsorption effect are calculated and analyzed. It is found that the output performance of 912 nm laser operating at room temperature is influenced remarkably by the reabsorption loss and spatial distribution of the pump beam and laser beam. In experiments, the output power and average slope efficiency of 912 nm laser were investigated under different conditions. After optimization at the parameters of laser medium, working temperature and spatial distribution of the pump beam, up to 16.2 W continuous-wave 912 nm laser output was obtained at incident pump power of 67.0 W, with an average slope efficiency of 41.7%, to the best of our knowledge, this is the highest output power of diode-pumped 912 nm Nd:GdVO4 laser by far. |
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Keywords: | Diode-pumped lasers Quasi-three-level Nd:GdVO4 912 nm |
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