title: Diode-pumped laser and self-frequency-doubling properties of a Nd3+:Na3La9O3(BO3)8 crystal.
abstract: We report efficient, diode-pumped, self-frequency doubling (SFD) in the newly developed laser crystal Nd3+:Na3La9O3(BO3)8 (Nd:NLBO). More than 730 mW of fundamental output power at 1072 nm was achieved with a slope efficiency of 16.2%. With incident pump power of 8 W, 29 mW of green cw laser emission at 536 nm was observed with proper phase matching. This initial performance and the good optical properties of the crystalline host are encouraging for the development of a high power diode-pumped SFD visible light laser source.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Functional Crystals and Laser Technology, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
authors.forename: Jianxiu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Haohai
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Yin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Yicheng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Huaijin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang