title: Efficient diode-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YAG/BaWO4 intracavity Raman laser.
abstract: Barium tungstate (BaWO4) is employed to achieve efficient stimulated Raman scattering conversion in a compact diode-pumped actively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. With an incident pump power of 9.2 W, 1.56 W of 1181 nm first-Stokes average output power was generated at a pulse repetition rate of 20 kHz, corresponding to an optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of 16.9%.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. yfchen@cc.nctu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Y F
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Jiang