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High-power neodymium-doped mixed vanadate bounce geometry laser, mode locked with nonlinear mirror |
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| Authors: | G M Thomas T Omatsu M J Damzen |
| Institution: | 1. Photonics, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BW, UK 2. Department of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan 3. CREST-JST, Saitama, Japan |
| Abstract: | The highest power neodymium-doped mixed vanadate laser oscillator is presented. Using a crystal of Nd:Gd0.6Y0.4VO4 in the bounce geometry, average output powers of 27.5?W in multimode and 23?W in TEM00 operation were achieved. The first nonlinear mirror mode-locked operation of a mixed vanadate laser is also presented, with 16.8?W output power??the highest power mode-locked mixed vanadate oscillator, to the best of our knowledge. Self-starting continuous-wave mode locking was observed at a repetition rate of 100?MHz, pulse duration of 12.7?ps and central wavelength of 1063.8?nm, in TEM00 mode. |
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