A self-Raman, Nd:GdVO4 laser generating 2.5W CW output at 586nm

Author

Pask, Helen ; Lee, Andrew ; Piper, Jim

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This paper report a CW, frequency doubled, Nd:GdV04 self-Raman laser producing 2.51 W of CW yellow emission with a 12.2 % overall optical (diode-to-yellow) conversion efficiency. This high level of output power is a result of a laser design which minimises thermal loading of the laser crystal, minimises resonator loss at the fundamental and first Stokes wavelength and maximises the collection efficiency of the yellow light generated in the doubling crystal.

Keywords

Raman lasers; gadolinium compounds; neodymium; optical harmonic generation; solid lasers; GdVO₄:Nd; Stokes wavelength; collection efficiency; laser crystal; optical frequency doubling; power 2.5 W to 2.51 W; resonator loss; self-Raman lasers; thermal loading; wavelength 586 nm; yellow emission; Diodes; Frequency conversion; Optical design; Optical frequency conversion; Optical harmonic generation; Optical resonators; Power generation; Power lasers; Stimulated emission; Thermal loading;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5196608

Filename

5196608