750 mW, 1.06 um, CW TEM00 output from a Nd:YVO4 laser end pumped by a single 20 stripe diode array
- 1 January 1988
- proceedings article
- Published by AIP Publishing in AIP Conference Proceedings
- Vol. 172 (1) , 20-23
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.37353
Abstract
We report the highest electrical to optical conversion efficiency (12.5%), and the highest cw output power (750 mW), from any solid state laser crystal end pumped by a single multiple stripe diode laser array. The optical slope efficiency, which refers to the 1.06 μm output power divided by the optical pump power incident on the end face of our laser crystal, was measured to be 64% in the best case and corresponds to nearly a 95% Nd quantum conversion rate, the highest yet reported.Keywords
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