A diode-end-pumped electro-optic （EO） Q-switched green laser operating at the repetition rate of 20 kHz is reported. A block of La3Ga5SiO14 （LGS） single crystal is used as a Q-switch and the type I phase- matching...A diode-end-pumped electro-optic （EO） Q-switched green laser operating at the repetition rate of 20 kHz is reported. A block of La3Ga5SiO14 （LGS） single crystal is used as a Q-switch and the type I phase- matching LiB305 （LBO） is used as the nonlinear crystal in the second harmonic generation. The 2.3-W average power of 532-nm green laser is obtained at the repetition rate of 20 kHz with the pulse width as short as 10 us. When the output power is about 1.5 W, the measured power fluctuation is less than 1.4% （root-mean-square. RMS） with the beam quality factor of M^2 〈 2 in both orthogonal directions.展开更多
基金the State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials of Shandong University for providing the LGS crystal.
文摘A diode-end-pumped electro-optic （EO） Q-switched green laser operating at the repetition rate of 20 kHz is reported. A block of La3Ga5SiO14 （LGS） single crystal is used as a Q-switch and the type I phase- matching LiB305 （LBO） is used as the nonlinear crystal in the second harmonic generation. The 2.3-W average power of 532-nm green laser is obtained at the repetition rate of 20 kHz with the pulse width as short as 10 us. When the output power is about 1.5 W, the measured power fluctuation is less than 1.4% （root-mean-square. RMS） with the beam quality factor of M^2 〈 2 in both orthogonal directions.
