Title :
Diode side-pumped, high efriciency Nd:YVO4 laser and improvement in beam quality
Author :
Camargo, F.A. ; Wetter, N.U.
Author_Institution :
IPEN, Sao Paulo
Abstract :
In this work, we describe a compact cavity with high slope efficiency with one pass inside the gain media and a significant improvement in beam quality with a novel cavity with only three mirrors and a second pass inside the gain media. Moreover, this cavity uses joint stability zones, giving therefore almost constant beam parameters throughout a wide range of pump powers.
Keywords :
laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser stability; neodymium; solid lasers; yttrium compounds; YVO4:Nd; diode side-pumped laser; gain media; high efficiency laser; joint stability zones; laser beam quality; laser cavity; slope efficiency; Diodes; Geometrical optics; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Mirrors; Optical materials; Power generation; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Stability;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0931-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0931-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4385886
