An efficient diode-end-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YLF/SrW04 Raman laser is demonstrated. The fun- damental wave is 1047.0nm and the corresponding first-Stocks wave is 1158.7nm. With a pumping power of 10.5 W, the ...An efficient diode-end-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YLF/SrW04 Raman laser is demonstrated. The fun- damental wave is 1047.0nm and the corresponding first-Stocks wave is 1158.7nm. With a pumping power of 10.5 W, the average output power of 2.2 W at 1158.7nm is obtained, with the corresponding optical conversion efficiency of 20.9%. At a repetition rate of 6 kHz, the pulse width of the Raman laser is 8. 7ns and the peak power is calculated to be 42.1 kW. The beam quality factors M2 in horizontal and vertical directions are 1.3 and 1.5, respectively.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11204160,61378032 and 61211120196the Shandong Province Science and Technology Research Projects under Grant No 2010GGX10137
文摘An efficient diode-end-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YLF/SrW04 Raman laser is demonstrated. The fun- damental wave is 1047.0nm and the corresponding first-Stocks wave is 1158.7nm. With a pumping power of 10.5 W, the average output power of 2.2 W at 1158.7nm is obtained, with the corresponding optical conversion efficiency of 20.9%. At a repetition rate of 6 kHz, the pulse width of the Raman laser is 8. 7ns and the peak power is calculated to be 42.1 kW. The beam quality factors M2 in horizontal and vertical directions are 1.3 and 1.5, respectively.