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A 7.5 W quasi-continuous-wave sodium D2 laser generated from single-pass sum-frequency generation in LBO crystal

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We report a high-power, narrow linewidth and tunable quasi-continuous-wave (QCW) yellow laser system at 589.159 nm. The system is of a design employing single-pass sum-frequency generation (SFG) in a LBO crystal by mixing the 1064 nm with 1319 nm lines from a two diode-side-pumped Nd:YAG master oscillator-power amplifier (MOPA) laser system. With the pump power of 35 W at 1064 nm and 25 W at 1319 nm, a 7.5 W QCW output of the SFG yellow laser at 589.159 nm, which is the vacuum wavelength of a general sodium D2 line, is obtained with a linewidth less than 0.7 GHz and a beam-quality factor M 2=1.2. The wavelength of the laser can be precisely step-tuned from 589.148 to 589.167 nm with an increment of 0.13 pm by means of a temperature-controlled etalon.

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  1. RCLPT, Key Lab of Functional Crystal and Laser Technology, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2711, Beijing, 100190, China

    S. Xie, Y. Bo, J. Xu, Y. Shen, P. Wang, Z. Wang, F. Yang, Q. Peng, D. Cui, J. Zhang & Z. Xu

  2. Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing, 100190, China

    S. Xie & F. Yang

  3. Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    S. Xie, Y. Shen, P. Wang, Z. Wang & F. Yang

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Xie, S., Bo, Y., Xu, J. et al. A 7.5 W quasi-continuous-wave sodium D2 laser generated from single-pass sum-frequency generation in LBO crystal. Appl. Phys. B 102, 781–787 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-010-4332-z

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