We proposed a Ho:GdVO4 laser operating at 2.05 μm which was directly in-band dual-end-pumped by a pair of 1.94 μm fiber-coupled laser diodes (LD). A Ho:GdVO4 crystal with doping of 1.0 at.% was used as the gain medium. In continuous-wave (CW) mode, we obtained the maximum output power of 6.5 W at 2047.9 nm with the absorbed pump power of 28 W, corresponding to a slope efficiency of 37.6 %. By using an LGS crystal as the electro-optical Q-switch, the highest peak power of 773.8 kW was obtained at a pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 1 kHz, corresponding to a maximum pulse energy of 3.25 mJ and a pulse width of 4.2ns.
In this paper, a ring cavity of Er:YAG laser with a single corner cube prism is investigated. Due to the depolarization effect of the corner cube, the tunable output coupling ratio was 0.25% to 72.67% by changing the angle of the λ / 4 plate according to the calculation results of Jones matrix. An experiment for checking the anti-detuning performances of the single corner cube cavity was also carried out. The results indicated that the output power was stable at the rotating angles of <3.06 deg and 1.637 deg along the vertical and horizontal directions, respectively. Under continuous wave operation, a 5.4 W vertically-polarized laser of 1645.1 nm was acquired through double polarizers with the beam quality factors (M2) of 1.17 in the x direction and 1.42 in the y direction, and the slope efficiency was 45.47%. Additionally, under the condition of a pulse-repetition-frequency (PRF) of 200 Hz, the pump power of 29.04 W, a maximum pulse energy of 2.2 mJ was realized, and the minimum pulse width was 86 ns, leading to a peak power of 25.58 KW.
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