Abstract
An approach to obtain a yellow laser is demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge by the employment of an Nd3+-doped YVO4 crystal and a LBO frequency-doubling crystal. Differing from the previous stimulated self-Raman radiation of Nd:YVO4, a direct 1176 nm lasing, without a high-intensity intracavity 1064 nm laser, was realized by utilizing an electron–phonon coupling effect and amplifying the thermally activated vibronic transitions. Combining with intracavity frequency-doubling, a yellow laser at 588 nm was obtained. At the pump power of 14.3 W, the output power of the yellow laser was 1.17 W, corresponding to a diode-to-visible efficiency of 8.2%. Moreover, for the first time, the yellow laser at 584 nm with output power of 164 mW was realized by tuning the filter, indicating the great potential of such an electron–phonon coupling laser for a wavelength extension in the yellow regime.
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