Abstract

An LED-side-pumped Nd:YAG/Cr⁴⁺:YAG passively Q-switched (PQS) laser containing an extracavity optical parametric oscillator (EOPO) is demonstrated. As far as we know, it is the first LED-pumped eye-safe laser. The Nd:YAG pump module is optimized to increase the PQS pulse energy to 24 mJ at 1064 nm. By using a single-pass EOPO design, the output energy of the signal pulse at 1573 nm is 7.44 mJ with a pulse width of 16 ns, the peak power is 434 kW, and the pump-to-signal conversion efficiency is 31%. For double-pass EOPO operation, the pump-to-signal conversion efficiency increases to 45.8%, the output energy of signal pulse is up to 10.98 mJ with a pulse width of 23.5 ns, and the peak power is 459 kW.

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