Authors: G M Thomas T Omatsu M J Damzen
Publish Date: 2012/03/31
Volume: 108, Issue: 1, Pages: 125-128
Abstract
The highest power neodymiumdoped mixed vanadate laser oscillator is presented Using a crystal of NdGd06Y04VO4 in the bounce geometry average output powers of 275 W in multimode and 23 W in TEM00 operation were achieved The first nonlinear mirror modelocked operation of a mixed vanadate laser is also presented with 168 W output power—the highest power modelocked mixed vanadate oscillator to the best of our knowledge Selfstarting continuouswave mode locking was observed at a repetition rate of 100 MHz pulse duration of 127 ps and central wavelength of 10638 nm in TEM00 mode
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