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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1988),
  • paper THB5

Diode-pumped 1.3-μm Nd:YVO4 laser

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Abstract

Considerable progress has been made in recent years with diode-laser-pumped solid-state lasers. 1–3 The most commonly used lasing ion, namely, neodymium, has been made to lase with various hosts including YAG,1 YLF, glass,2 and recently YVO4.3 Despite early promise exhibited by the YVO4 host,4,5 notably the demonstration of large stimulated emission cross sections both at 1.06 and 1.34 µm, YVO4 was abandoned for flash-lamp-pumped laser applications in favor of YAQ, YLF, and glass because of the difficulty of growing large laser quality crystals of yttrium orthovanadate (YVO4). However, the applicability of this material to efficient diode-pumped lasers has been elucidated by recent work of Fields et al.3 in which efficient laser operation of a 1.06-μm diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser was demonstrated.

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