title: Comparison on performance of passively Q-switched laser properties of continuous-grown composite GdVO4/Nd:GdVO4 and YVO4/Nd:YVO4 crystals under direct pumping.
abstract: The comparison on performance of passively Q-switched laser properties of continuous-grown composite GdVO(4)/Nd:GdVO(4) and YVO(4)/Nd:YVO(4) crystals under direct pumping to the emitting level was demonstrated. A Cr(4+):YAG crystal was used as saturable absorber. At an incident pump power of 10 W, the average output power, the pulse width, the repetition rate, the pulse energy, and the peak power for a GdVO(4)/Nd:GdVO(4) laser were 1.22 W, 48.1 ns, 121 kHz, 10.1 μJ, and 209.6 W, respectively. And for a YVO(4)/Nd:YVO(4) laser under the same conditions, these output characteristics were 1.26 W, 44.9 ns, 218 kHz, 5.8 μJ, and 128.7 W, respectively.
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China. mayufei926@163.com
authors.forename: Yufei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Xudong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Rongwei
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Junhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yu