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High-efficiency 60 W TEM(00) Nd:YVO(4) oscillator pumped at 888 nm
Louis McDonagh1, Richard Wallenstein, Ralf Knappe
1Fachbereich Physik, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany. mcdonagh@physik.uni-kl.de
Optics Letters
|October 31, 2006
Abstract:
We propose a technique for pumping Nd:YVO(4) with high optical power at 888nm while making absorption independent of the pump light polarization state. This is especially suitable for systems end pumped by high-power, high-brightness fiber-coupled diode sources associated with long vanadate crystals to effectively spread the heat load in a large volume. A compact 60 W output, 55% optical efficiency cw TEM(00) oscillator was demonstrated.

