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High efficiency single- and dual-wavelength Nd : GdVO4 lasers pumped by a fiber-coupled diode

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Diode-end-pumped high-efficiency single- and dual-wavelength Nd : GdVO4 lasers have been demonstrated. For the single-wavelength operation, the maximum cw output powers of 15.6 W (M2=1.54) at 1063 nm and 7.5 W (M2=1.40) at 1342 nm were achieved under the highest available pump power of 26.5 W, having the respective optical-to-optical conversion efficiencies of 59.2% and 28.2% as well as the average slope efficiencies of 65.1% and 32.2%. For the dual-wavelength operation, under the available pump power of 12.6 W, we obtained the average power outputs of 1.0 W (M2=4.85) at 1063 nm and 1.4 W (M2=3.22) at 1342 nm with the respective pulse durations of 23 ns and 53 ns for quasi-cw operation, and the power outputs of 1.8 W (M2=5.35) at 1063 nm and 2.0 W (M2=4.76) at 1342 nm for cw operation.

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  1. National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, P.R. China

    J.L. He, J. Sun, S. Liu, Y.X. Fan & H.T. Wang

  2. Department of Physics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014, P.R. China

    J.L. He & J. Du

  3. Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanism, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, P.R. China

    L.H. Zhang & Y. Hang

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He, J., Du, J., Sun, J. et al. High efficiency single- and dual-wavelength Nd : GdVO4 lasers pumped by a fiber-coupled diode. Appl. Phys. B 79, 301–304 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-004-1558-7

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