Crystal growth and laser performance of neodymium-doped scandium orthovanadate

Yao, Bin; Wu, Kui; Zhang, Cong; Zhang, Huaijin; Wang, Zhengping; Wang, Jing; Yu, Haohai; Yu, Yantuan; Jiang, Minhua

doi:10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2009.12.012

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“…As possible future prospects in the crystal preparation, novel vanadate laser crystals with smaller cations, such as Sc 3+ and larger cations, such as La 3+ should gain more attention, because Sc 3+ has a very small ionic radius, a property that dictates unusual crystal growth properties , and La 3+ has a very large ionic radius, a property that induces changes in crystal symmetry . In laser applications, more studies will focus on the design of laser systems, such as with cavity and cooling engineering that utilize slabs or thin disks.…”

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Advances in vanadate laser crystals at a lasing wavelength of 1 micrometer

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Zhang

et al. 2014

Laser & Photonics Reviews

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Sapphire, garnet and vanadate crystals are the most prominent optical materials, and vanadates play important roles in optics, especially in lasers and nonlinear optics. Neodymium‐doped yttrium vanadate (Nd:YVO4) is representative and available commercially. Based on Nd:YVO4, several vanadate crystals are being developed with the goal of fulfilling the need for differential applications and improvement of certain operational aspects, such as with pulsed lasers or high‐power continuous‐wave lasers. In recent years, some important effects, including energy enhancement, bistability of output performance, self‐Raman frequency shifting, etc., and some novel applications, such as quantum optics, pulsed lasers modulated by the two‐dimensional crystals, etc., have been discovered with vanadates as gain materials. In this paper, the preparation, characterization and laser applications of vanadate laser crystals at the lasing wavelength of 1 micrometer, including YVO4, GdVO4, LuVO4, GdxY1–xVO4 and LuxGd1–xVO4 (0 < x < 1) doped with Nd3+ and ytterbium (Yb3+) are systematically reviewed by highlighting the most recent research progress. Their specific properties are presented, generation mechanisms of novel physical effects are discussed, new applications are given and possible future applications proposed by focusing on some potential strengths.

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Advances in vanadate laser crystals at a lasing wavelength of 1 micrometer

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“…To be sure that the technology chosen for the CZ growth of vanadium crystals was optimal, an Nd-doped YVO 4 Fig. 1a.…”

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“…3, Table 1, corresponding to out-of-phase and in-phase displacements in the z direction (the external B 2g translation modes) and in the x, y plane (the external E g , translation modes) of the two [VO 4 ] 3 À case as a whole and the two (Sc 3 + or Y 3 + ) ions in the (Sc,Y)VO 4 primitive cell [15], Table 1 The assignments and the main data of Raman spectra of the (Sc,Y)VO 4 is evidence of both an increasing of a cation-anion, (Sc 3 + /Y 3 + -[VO 4 ] 3 À ), interaction and a disordering of a crystal lattice when Y substituted for Sc.…”

Section: Raman Spectra Of Mixed Nd:(scy)vo 4 Crystalmentioning

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“…The orthovanadates ScVO 4 , GdVO 4 , and YVO 4 are isostructural crystals; the same ZrSiO 4 structure, which belong to the tetragonal space group I4 1/amd . Sc 3 + ions occupy the same lattice sites as the Gd 3+ and the Y 3 + ions in the other orthovanadates GdVO 4 , and YVO 4 , respectively, and have the site symmetry D 2d .…”

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“…Thus, scandium vanadate stabilized in a zircon [2] or in a cubic fluorite structure [3] subjected to the conditions of synthesis by a low-temperature route. The first 0.5 at% Nd:ScVO 4 crystal was successfully grown by the floating zone method in a 99.9% oxygen atmosphere; the efforts to grow ScVO 4 by CZ method failed [4]. X-ray powder diffraction analysis revealed that the ScVO 4 grown sample was not a single phase crystal, and the very low slope efficiency, 4.4%, indicates that the crystal had a bad optical quality.…”

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