High power, microjoule-level diffraction-limited picosecond oscillator based on Nd:GdVO4 bulk crystal

Jie Guo; Wei Wang; Hua Lin; Xiaoyan Liang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.000452

Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 4, 452(2019)

High power, microjoule-level diffraction-limited picosecond oscillator based on Nd:GdVO4 bulk crystal

Jie Guo¹, Wei Wang^1,2, Hua Lin¹, and Xiaoyan Liang^1、*

¹State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

²Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Paper Information

Category: Ultrafast Optics

Received: Jan. 7, 2019

Accepted: Feb. 14, 2019

Published Online: May. 7, 2019

The Author Email: Xiaoyan Liang (liangxy@siom.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000452

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