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Efficient Nd:YAG laser end pumped by a high-power multistripe laser-diode bar with multiprism array coupling

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Abstract

A 10-W laser-diode bar, a multistripe monolithic laser-diode array, has been used to end pump Nd:YAG. Twelve beams emitted from 12 stripes, spaced 800 μm apart, of a 1-cm linear diode array were collimated with a multiprism array consisting of 14 prismlets with 800-μm width to pump the Nd:YAG facet. The maximum Nd:YAG cw output power at 1064 nm of 3 W was obtained at 10-W laser-diode-bar power with a slope efficiency of 35%, and a TEM00 spatial mode with values of beam-quality factor M 2 of 1.29 and 1.76 in the planes perpendicular and parallel to the junction, respectively. A pulse width of 25.2 ns (1-kHz repetition) was obtained in acousto-optic Q-switched operation.

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