Basiev Tasoltan, Doroshenko Maxim, Ivleva Lyudmila, Voronina Irina, Konjushkin Vasily, Osiko Vjatcheslav, Vasilyev Sergey
Laser Materials and Technology Research Center, General Physics Institute of RAS, Moscow, Russia.
Opt Lett. 2009 Apr 1;34(7):1102-4. doi: 10.1364/ol.34.001102.
Passively Q-switched self-Raman laser oscillations in the SrMoO4:Nd3+ crystal optically pumped by a laser diode (LD) at 804 nm are demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge. Output parameters of LD-pumped SrMoO4:Nd3+ laser were investigated in free-running, passively Q-switched, and self-Raman regimes of laser operation, over a wide range of pulse repetition rates (8.5-85 kHz). A pulse energy of 21 microJ was measured in the self-Raman regime at 1163 nm (first Stokes) wavelength, which is 6 times higher than that for the GdVO4:Nd3+ self-Raman laser of similar design.
