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Diode-end-Pumped Nd:YAG Ceramic and Crystal Operation at 1,123 nm

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We present a high-power diode-end-pumped continuous-wave Nd:YAG laser operating at 1,123 nm. Laser operation was carried out and compared using high optical quality Nd:YAG ceramics fabricated in-house and commercial Nd:YAG single crystals. At the absorbed diode pump powers of 23.2 and 28.0 W, output powers of 10.7 and 12.5 W at 1,123 nm were achieved for the employed ceramics and crystals as the laser material, which correspond to conversion efficiencies of 46.1% and 44.6%. For high-power lasers, the Nd:YAG ceramic has the advantage of a higher destructive threshold than that of commercial crystals.

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  1. College of Physics and Electronic Information, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325035, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaoge Pan, Haiyong Zhu, Yanmin Duan, Jiuyi Chen & Yaoju Zhang

  2. School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, 221116, People’s Republic of China

    Jian Zhang & Dingyuan Tang

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Pan, X., Zhu, H., Duan, Y. et al. Diode-end-Pumped Nd:YAG Ceramic and Crystal Operation at 1,123 nm. J Russ Laser Res 34, 458–462 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10946-013-9375-2

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