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We report a high power continuous wave laser operation with a Nd:YAG single crystal fiber. A piece of high quality Nd:YAG single crystal fiber was prepared by means of laser heated pedestal growth method and was then applied as the laser gain medium. The crystal fiber laser was end-pumped by a fiber pig-tailed laser diode working around 808 nm. A maximum output power of 13 W was obtained at a pump power of 60 W. To our knowledge, it was the highest laser power ever achieved with a piece of single crystal fiber.
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Shen, J.W., Wu, B. & Shen, Y.H. High power CW laser operation with a Nd:YAG single-crystal fiber grown by LHPG method. Laser Phys. 19, 2031–2034 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X09190177
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