Continuous-wave operation of a room-temperature, diode-laser-pumped, 946-nm Nd:YAG laser
Abstract
Single-stripe diode-laser-pumped operation of a continuous-wave 946-nm Nd:YAG laser with less than 10-mW threshold has been demonstrated. A slope efficiency of 16 percent near threshold was shown with a projected slope efficiency well above a threshold of 34 percent based on results under Rhodamine 6G dye-laser pumping. Nonlinear crystals for second-harmonic generation of this source were evaluated. KNbO3 and periodically poled LiNbO3 appear to be the most promising.
- Publication:
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Optics Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1364/OL.12.000809
- Bibcode:
- 1987OptL...12..809F
- Keywords:
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- Continuous Wave Lasers;
- Harmonic Generations;
- Neodymium Lasers;
- Solid State Lasers;
- Yag Lasers;
- Crystal Optics;
- Laser Pumping;
- Lithium Niobates;
- Nonlinear Optics;
- Potassium Compounds;
- Rhodamine;
- Thresholds;
- Lasers and Masers