Tue, 2009-07-07 07:00 — Guest
Ying Yan, Hengli Zhang, Yang Liu, Xilong Yu, Huaijin Zhang, Jingliang He, Jianguo Xin
A diode stack end-pumped Nd:YVO_4 slab laser at 1342 nm with near-diffraction-limited beam quality by using a hybrid resonator was presented. At a pump power of 139.5 W, laser power of 35.4 W was obtained with a conversion efficiency of 25.4% of the laser diode to laser output. The beam quality M^2 ... [Opt. Lett. 34, 2105-2107 (2009)]