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We report on a compact 880-nm diode-directly-pumped passively mode-locked TEM00 Nd:GdVO4 laser at 1341 nm with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) for the first time. Under the absorbed pump power of 14.6 W, the maximum output power of 1.27 W was obtained at the repetition rate of 85.3 MHz with the pulse width of 45.3 ps, corresponding to an optical-optical efficiency of 8.8% and the slope efficiency of 33.3%, respectively. The beam quality factor was measured to be M 2 = 1.18, indicating a TEM00 mode.
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Liu, K., Li, F.Q., Liu, Y. et al. Compact diode-directly-pumped passively mode-locked TEM00 Nd:GdVO4 laser at 1341 nm using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. Laser Phys. 22, 95–99 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X12010112
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