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Power scaling of Nd:YVO4 and Nd:GdVO4 disk lasers using synthetic diamond as a heat spreader
1Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, Wolfson Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. patricia.millar@strath.ac.uk
Optics Letters
|March 14, 2009
Abstract:
A newly developed low-birefringence synthetic diamond is shown to be an effective intracavity heat spreader in Nd:YVO4 and Nd:GdVO4 disk lasers. A cw output power of 25.7 W from only one double pass of the pump is reported. The diamond heat spreader is shown to increase the pump power density at which fracture occurs.
