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a high power dual-end-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser with adaptive compensation of thermal lensing effect by adjusting HR mirror along the optical axis was proposed. In Q-switching operation at 70 kHz, the laser worked at different pump power (from 90 W to 70 W) with stable beam quality (M 2 ∼ 1.15) and high output power (from 39 to 28.4 W), corresponding to the absorbed-output conversion efficiency of 55%. In the meantime, the pulse duration was increased from 24 to 31.7 ns. At various repetition rate from 60 to 100 kHz, the beam quality factors were all measured less than 1.2.
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Chen, H., Liu, Q., Yan, X. et al. High power Q-switched TEM00 Nd:YVO4 laser with self-adaptive compensation of thermal lensing effect. Laser Phys. 20, 1594–1597 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X10130025
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