Dy. Shen et al., Efficient and compact intracavity-frequency-doubled Nd : GdVO4/KTP laser end-pumped by a fiber-coupled laser diode, APP PHYS B, 72(3), 2001, pp. 263-266
A compact and efficient diode-pumped intracavity-frequency-doubled Nd:GdVO4
/KTP green laser is demonstrated with a flat-hat cavity design. With a 1.3
at. % Nd3+-doped GdVO4 crystal and pumped at the weak-absorption peak of 80
6 nm, the second-harmonic output power at 532 nm was measured to be 1.95 W
at an incident pump power of 8.4 W, corresponding to an optical conversion
efficiency of 23.2%. The output characteristic at the fundamental wavelengt
h of 1.063 mum was investigated with two different pump wavelengths. More t
han 4.5-W output power was generated when the laser was pumped at 806.2 nm.