Review of cw high-power diode-pumped green lasers

Nightingale, J. L.; Selker, Mark D.; Johnston, Thomas F.; Frangineas, George; Seaton, C. T.; Negus, Daniel K.

doi:10.1117/12.269983

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“…Based on Table, one can conclude that Nd:GdVO 4 has better thermal and mechanical properties that make it favorable for constructing high‐power lasers, Nd:LuVO 4 has the largest emission cross section, which is advantageous in producing highly efficient lasers, mixed crystals have the best energy‐storage properties and exhibit inhomogeneously broadened spectra showing promising applications as pulsed lasers, and all the vanadate crystals have multifunctional properties, such as self‐Raman lasing and self‐Q‐switching. Up to now, Nd:YVO 4 lasers have been utilized for their power especially in micromachining and in the generation of green laser light. Perhaps because they have been constrained by a short research history, much more improvement in the performance of the relatively novel vanadate crystals can be expected in the near future.…”

Section: Neodymium‐doped Vanadate Crystalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Liu

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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Section: Neodymium‐doped Vanadate Crystalsmentioning

confidence: 99%