Abstract
We demonstrate a Nd:YAG laser emitting radially polarized, mode-locked long pulses by exploiting the thermally induced birefringence of a Nd:YAG crystal. The laser repetition rate is , the maximum average output power is , and the beam quality is close to the theoretical value of .
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