A self-organizing laser based on a single diode-pumped Nd:YAG slab with reciprocal cavity completed by dynamic holographic gratings was created. The temporal dynamics, frequency spectrum and spatial characteristics of the generated beam were examined. A single-transverse-mode beam with up to 10 mJ pulse energy and 15% optical-to-optical efficiency was generated.

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CLEO???2003

• O.L. Antipov, O.N. Eremeykin, A.P. Savikin, D.Yu. Tshchegol�??kov, �??A self-starting diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser with reciprocal cavity completed by dynamic holographic gratings,�?? in Technical Digest of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO�??2003, Baltimore, U.S., June 1 �?? 6, 2003), paper CFE6.

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

• O.L. Antipov, D.V. Chausov, A.S. Kuzhelev, V.A. Vorob�??ev, A.P. Zinoviev, �??250-W Average-power Nd:YAG Laser with Self-Adaptive Cavity Completed by Dynamic Refractive-Index Gratings,�?? IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 37, 716�??724 (2001). [CrossRef]
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J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

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Opt. Commun.

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Opt. Express

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Opt. Lett.

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Technical Digest of CLEO???2004

• O.L. Antipov, O.N. Eremeykin, A. Minassian, and M.J. Damzen, �??An efficient cw diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser with reciprocal self-organizing dynamic holographic cavity,�?? in Technical Digest of CLEO�??2004, (San Francisco, USA, May 2004), paper CML2.

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