Diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser emitting at 899 nm and below

Marc Castaing (1, 2) , Emilie Hérault (2) , François Balembois (2) , Patrick Georges (2) , Cyrille Varona (3) , Pascal Loiseau (3) , Gerard Aka (3)

1 OXXIUS
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa
3 LCAES - Laboratoire de Chimie Appliquée de l'État Solide

We present what is, to the best of our knowledge, the first diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser emitting at 899 nm and below, based on the 4F3/2−4I9/2 transition, generally used for a 946 nm emission. A power of 630mW at 899 nm has been achieved in cw operation and 16mW at 884 nm with a fiber-coupled laser diode emitting 9W at 808 nm. Intracavity second-harmonic generation in cw mode has also been demonstrated with a power of 100mW at 450 nm by using a LiB3O5 nonlinear crystal

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]

Marc Castaing, Emilie Hérault, François Balembois, Patrick Georges, Cyrille Varona, et al.. Diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser emitting at 899 nm and below. Optics Letters, 2007, 32 (7), pp.799-801. ⟨hal-00700704⟩