High average power, all-solid-state external resonator Raman laser

H. M. Pask; S. Myers; J. A. Piper; J. Richards; T. McKay

High average power, all-solid-state external resonator Raman laser

H. M. Pask^*, S. Myers, J. A. Piper, J. Richards, T. McKay

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As much as 3 W of average power at 1064 nm from a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser, Q switched at 4 kHz, was used to pump an external-resonator, crystalline Ba(NO₃)₂ Raman laser generating a maximum of 1.3-W output at the first Stokes wavelength of 1197 nm. The slope efficiency was 63% with respect to the fundamental power incident on the Ba(NO₃)₂ crystal. A reduction in the beam quality of the Stokes output from M₂ ∼ 1.4 at lower Stokes powers to M² ∼ 3.4 at higher powers is attributed to thermal loading of the Raman-active crystal.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	435-437
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	28
Issue number	6
Publication status	Published - 15 Mar 2003

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