Reduced thermal lensing in an end-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser using a ring-shaped pump beam

D. Lin; W. A. Clarkson

doi:10.1364/CLEO_SI.2016.SM3M.5

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
OSA Technical Digest (2016) (Optica Publishing Group, 2016),
paper SM3M.5
•https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2016.SM3M.5

Reduced thermal lensing in an end-pumped Nd:YVO₄ laser using a ring-shaped pump beam

D. Lin and W. A. Clarkson

CLEO: Science and Innovations 2016

San Jose, California United States
5–10 June 2016
ISBN: 978-1-943580-11-8

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D. Lin and W. A. Clarkson, "Reduced thermal lensing in an end-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser using a ring-shaped pump beam," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest (2016) (Optica Publishing Group, 2016), paper SM3M.5.

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Abstract

We report a simple technique for reducing thermal lensing in end-pumped solid-state lasers using a pump with a ring-shaped intensity distribution to decrease the radial temperature gradient. Preliminary results for a Nd:YVO₄ laser are presented.

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