Efficient and stable operation of a high-brightness cw 500-W Nd: YAG rod laser

K Yasui - Applied optics, 1996 - opg.optica.org
Enhanced efficiency and stabilized beam-power generation were proved for a high-
brightness cw-based 500-W Nd: YAG rod laser by compensation of the thermally induced …

Revisiting the optical properties of Nd doped yttrium orthovanadate

DE Zelmon, JJ Lee, KM Currin, JM Northridge… - Applied …, 2010 - opg.optica.org
Neodymium doped YVO_4 is becoming an increasingly popular material for solid state
lasers. Among the advantages of vanadates over more traditional materials are that the …

100 W continuous linearly polarized, high beam quality output from standard side-pumped Nd: YAG laser modules

A Bereczki, NU Wetter - Optics & Laser Technology, 2017 - Elsevier
Dynamically stable operation with joined stability zones of a linearly polarized resonator is
shown for a laser containing two diode side-pumped Nd: YAG rods. The unpolarized …

Dynamically stable single frequency ring resonator from diode pumped Nd: YAG modules with 55.6 W of output power

A Bereczki, AA Ferreira, NU Wetter - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
A Nd: YAG rod single-frequency ring laser based on side-pumped commercial modules is
presented. Thermally induced birefringence compensation was applied in a dynamically …

Dynamically stable Nd: YAG resonators with beam quality beyond the birefringence limit and pum** of a singly resonant optical parametric oscillator

A Bereczki, MAPA Lopez, NU Wetter - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A simple, reliable, linearly polarized laser source with very high beam quality is
demonstrated using standard diode-side-pumped Nd: YAG modules. The laser produced 30 …

Random laser materials: from ultrahigh efficiency to very low threshold (Anderson localization)

N Wetter, E Jimenez-Villar - Journal of Materials Science: Materials in …, 2019 - Springer
Random lasers hold the premise for cheap coherent light sources that can be miniaturized
and molded into any shape and used for speckle-free imaging in biology, remote sensing …

Highly efficient, dynamically stable Nd: YAG single-rod resonators with 60% TEM00 extraction efficiency and high misalignment stability

RS Pinto, NU Wetter - Laser Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We systematically investigate positive and negative slope resonators with joint stability
zones and show the advantages and drawbacks of the different designs. As a result we …

Compact, high power CW ring laser resonator

A Bereczki, FC de Menezes… - … Conference on Optical …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrated the dynamically stable operation of aNd: YAG ring laser with 51.8 W of
linearly polarized, continuous output power. The laser was based on laser modules side …

Performance studies of diode-side-pumped CW Nd: YAG laser in copper coated optical pump cavity

R Sundar, K Ranganathan, AK Nath - Optics & Laser Technology, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper reports the performance studies of Nd: YAG rods with different diameters and
do** concentration in the CW diode-side-pumped geometry. We have used p-polarized …

Sub-100 W TEM00 bulk Nd:GdVO4 oscillator based on orthogonal thermal compensation

D Sun, H Lin, J Guo, W Wang, X Liang - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We present a Nd: GdVO_4 bulk crystal oscillator with> 70 WTEM_00 laser output based on
the orthogonal thermal compensation architecture. The asymmetry of thermo-optical effects …