Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jul 7, 2026
Construction and Characterization of External Cavity Diode Lasers for Atomic Physics
Published on: April 24, 2014
Design and characterization of a diode-pumped, single longitudinal and transverse mode, intracavity-doubled cw Nd:YAG
A Agnesi1, S Dell'Acqua, G C Reali
1Dipartimento di Elettronica, Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Universita' di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Abstract:
We report on the experimental results of a diode-pumped, intracavity-doubled cw Nd:YAG laser, pumped by a 10-W fiber-coupled semiconductor laser at 808 nm and emitting as much as 600 mW in a stable single longitudinal mode and TEM(00) spatial mode. We discuss the main issues of the resonator design and the optimization of the intracavity second harmonic conversion by interpreting our results using simple models. Improvements for the current project are also discussed.
