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Laser-diode-pumped Nd:YVO4/Nd:YAG MOPA burst-mode laser

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We report a high-repetition-rate, high-peak-power laser diode (LD) pumped burst-mode 1064 nm laser from a Nd:YVO4/Nd:YAG master oscillator power amplifier. 10–100 kHz pulse burst in a duration up to 2 ms is achieved in LD end-pumped Nd:YVO4 acousto-optically Q-switched laser. After amplification with LD side-pumped Nd:YAG rod amplifiers, the single pulse energy reaches 73 mJ in 10 kHz pulse burst laser with a peak power of 7.8 MW.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (61605032 and 61505042), National Key Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Projects of China (No. 2012YQ04016401), General Financial Grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2015M80263), the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities (Grant No. HIT. NSRIF. 2017018).

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  1. National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150080, China

    Xudong Li, Renpeng Yan, Yiping Zhou, Xin Yu, Hu Pan & Deying Chen

  2. Post-doctoral Mobile Station of Physics, Department of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China

    Xudong Li, Renpeng Yan & Zhongxiang Zhou

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Li, X., Yan, R., Zhou, Y. et al. Laser-diode-pumped Nd:YVO4/Nd:YAG MOPA burst-mode laser. Opt Rev 24, 611–616 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-017-0354-7

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