A novel ring laser resonator of linear geometry with twin off-axially cut Nd:YVO4

Yanping Chen; E. Wu; Shaofeng Zhang; Zhenrong Sun; Heping Zeng

doi:10.1016/S0030-4018(03)01355-5

A novel ring laser resonator of linear geometry with twin off-axially cut Nd:YVO₄

Yanping Chen
, E. Wu
, Shaofeng Zhang
, Zhenrong Sun
, Heping Zeng^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A ring laser resonator is realized in a compact linear configuration with a twin-Nd:YVO₄ device formed by a pair of off-axially cut Nd:YVO₄ crystals, which are closely packed with their optical axes being rotated 90° from each other. In a linear resonator with a twin-Nd:YVO₄ device sandwiched by two intra-cavity quarter-wave plates, laser beams can circulate in the twin-Nd:YVO₄ device. Due to spatial walk-off resulted from birefringence within the twin-Nd:YVO₄ device, the spatial modulation of laser gain is eliminated. A stable IR output of 51 mW at 1064 nm is obtained with a pump power of 581 mW at 809 nm. The threshold pump power is 207 mW, and laser slope efficiency is 13.6%. Stable green light can also be obtained by temperature-controlling the intra-cavity nonlinear crystal KTP as a quarter-wave plate to replace one of the intra-cavity quarter-wave plates.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	179-186
Number of pages	8
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	220
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0030-4018(03)01355-5
State	Published - 1 May 2003
Externally published	Yes

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Ring laser Resonator
Twin off-axially cut crystal

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