Combining the self-stimulated Raman scattering technology and saturable absorber of Cr^(4+):YAG, a 1.17 μm c-cut Nd:GdVO_4 picosecond Q-switched laser is demonstrated in this paper. With an incident pump power of 10 W, the Q-switched laser with average power of 430 mW for 1.17 μm, pulse width of 270 ps, repetition rate of 13 kHz and the first order Stokes conversion efficiency of 4.3% is obtained. The Q-switched pulse width can be the narrowest in our research. In addition, the yellow laser at 0.58 μm is also achieved by using the LiB_3O_5 frequency doubling crystal.
In this paper, a passively Q-switched and mode-locked c-cut Nd-doped vanadate crystal self-Raman laser at 1.17 μm is firstly demonstrated by using Cr4+:YAG. Two crystals of Nd3+:YVO4 and Nd3+:Gd VO4 are adopted to generate laser, respectively. With the incident pump power of 13 W, the average output powers of 678 m W and 852 m W at 1.17 μm are obtained with the durations of Q-switched envelope of 1.8 ns and 2 ns, respectively. The mode-locked repetition rates are as high as 2.3 Hz and 2.2 GHz, respectively. As far as we know, the Q-switched envelope is the narrowest and the mode-locked repetition rate is the highest at present in this field. In addition, yellow laser output is also achieved by using the Li B3O5 frequency doubling crystal.
In this paper, a self-mode-locked Nd:YVO_4 picosecond vortex laser is demonstrated, which can operate on the different Laguerre-Gaussian(LG) modes at 1 064 nm. A π/2 mode converter is utilized to realize the picosecond vortex laser with LG mode transformed from the high-order Hermite-Gaussian(HG) mode. For the proposed laser, the mode-locked pulse repetition rate is 1.81 GHz. The average output powers of LG_(12) mode and LG_(02) mode are 1.241 W and 1.27 W, respectively, and their slope efficiencies are 23.2% and 24%, respectively.
