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OPTICAL MATERIALS
Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages 582-585Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2012.10.032
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Potassium gadolinium tungstate; Thermal lensing; Diode-pumped laser
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A comparative experimental study of thermal lensing effect was performed for diode-pumped Yb3+-doped Y3Al5O12 and N-g-cut KGd(WO4)(2) crystals under cw (continuous wavelength) operation mode. For N-g-cut Yb:KGd(WO4)(2), thermal lens is positive for rays lying in all meridional planes and at least seven times weaker than that of Yb:Y3Al5O12. This is associated with lower quantum defect under 980-nm pumping (in comparison with 940-nm pumping for Yb:Y3Al5O12) and mutual compensation of negative impact of temperature dependence of the refractive index and positive impact of thermal expansion effect to the thermal lens optical power. Principal meridional planes of thermal lens in N-g-cut Yb:KGd(WO4)(2) contain N-p and N-m axes of optical indicatrix; corresponding sensitivity factors M = dD/dP(abs) equal 1.38 m(-1) and 1.09 m(-1) (with respect to absorbed pump power). This near-athermal crystal was utilized to produce air-cooled diode-pumped cw laser with output power of 14 W, impressive slope efficiency of 76% and excellent beam quality (M-2 < 1.2). (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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