Abstract

A quasi-cw diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser, mode locked by a nonlinear mirror and stabilized by an acousto-optic modulator, has been developed that generates 31-ps, $23-\mathit{\mu }\mathrm{J}$ pulses. Employing this source with a periodically poled lithium niobate crystal in a traveling-wave geometry, we obtained extracavity frequency conversion with pump depletion of as much as 62% in the near infrared (1.46–$1.56 \mathit{\mu }\mathrm{m}$) with a pulse spectral width of 1.5 nm and a beam quality $M^2=1.7$.

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