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Active media. Lasers

Study of a Nd³⁺:KGW crystal laser transversely pumped by laser diode bars

A. Yu. Abazadze, G. M. Zverev, Yu. M. Kolbatskov, N. S. Ustimenko

Polyus Research and Development Institute named after M. F. Stel'makh, Moscow

Abstract: A Nd³⁺:KGW crystal laser transversely pumped by laser diode bars is studied experimentally. The optimisation of the laser parameters provided the maximum slope efficiency of ~50 % at 1.067 μm in the free running regime. Using the SRS self-conversion in a Nd³⁺: KWG laser, lasing was obtained in the eye-safe spectral region at 1.538 nm with the energy up to 5 mJ and a pulse repetition rate up to 20 Hz.

PACS: 42.55.Rz, 42.55.Xi, 42.60.Lh, 42.65.Dr

Received: 07.04.2003
Revised: 01.07.2003

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2004, 34:1, 20–22

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