Title :
Efficient Eye-Safe Nd:YVO4 Self-Raman Laser In-Band Pumped at 914 nm
Author :
Xin Ding ; Jian Liu ; Quan Sheng ; Bin Li ; Xuanyi Yu ; Liang Wu ; Guizhong Zhang ; Bing Sun ; Pengbo Jiang ; Wei Zhang ; Cen Zhao ; Jianquan Yao
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Laser & Opto-Electron., Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China
Abstract :
An efficient Q-switched eye-safe Nd:YVO4 self-Raman laser, which we believe to be the first one in-band pumped at 914 nm, is presented, and 2.58 W of 1525-nm Stokes output was generated under the absorbed pump power of 10.2 W with a high repetition rate of 100 kHz, corresponding to a conversion efficiency of 25.3%. The optical efficiency with respect to incident pump also reached 16.4%. Influences of crystal temperature and dopant concentration on the performance of the eye-safe self-Raman laser were experimentally investigated.
Keywords :
Q-switching; Raman lasers; neodymium; optical frequency conversion; optical pumping; solid lasers; stimulated Raman scattering; yttrium compounds; Q-switched laser; Stokes output; YVO4:Nd; conversion efficiency; crystal temperature; dopant concentration; efficiency 25.3 percent; efficient eye-safe self-Raman laser; in-band pumped laser; optical efficiency; power 10.2 W; power 2.58 W; pump power; wavelength 1525 nm; wavelength 914 nm; Absorption; Cavity resonators; Crystals; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Power generation; Stimulated emission; Eye-safe; in-band pumping; stimulated Raman scattering; vanadate laser;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Journal, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/JPHOT.2015.2496860
