Growth of highly doped Nd:YAG laser crystals

Jun Xu; Yongzong Zhou; Hongjun Li; Peizhen Deng

doi:10.1117/12.380912

3 April 2000 Growth of highly doped Nd:YAG laser crystals

Jun Xu, Yongzong Zhou, Hongjun Li, Peizhen Deng

Proceedings Volume 3889, Advanced High-Power Lasers; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.380912
Event: Advanced High-Power Lasers and Applications, 1999, Osaka, Japan

Abstract

During the last decade, Nd:YVO₄ has been developed as a promising substitutes for Nd:YAG in diode-pumped lasers due to its high absorption and emission cross-sections. However, the applications of YVO₄ are limited due to its poor physical- mechanical properties and growth difficulty etc. Now, in this present paper, we have developed the high-doped Nd:YAG(SUPER- Nd:YAG) crystals. It shows high absorption cross-section and has many advantages over Nd:YVO₄: (1) Due to the cubic symmetry and high quality, Nd:YAG is easy to operate with TEM₀₀ mode. (2) Nd:YAG can be Q-switched with Cr⁴⁺:YAG directly (sandwich). (3) Nd:YAG can produce blue laser with the frequency-doubling of 946 nm. (4) Nd:YAG can be operated in a very high power laser up to kW level.

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Jun Xu, Yongzong Zhou, Hongjun Li, and Peizhen Deng "Growth of highly doped Nd:YAG laser crystals", Proc. SPIE 3889, Advanced High-Power Lasers, (3 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.380912

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