Abstract

Due to a high Raman threshold and serious thermal effect, a challenge is to achieve efficient continuous-wave (CW) operation of a crystalline Raman laser at 1.5 µm. Based on effective thermal management and the self-Raman effect, we demonstrate, to our knowledge, the first efficient CW operation of a ${\rm Nd}{:}{{\rm YVO}_4}$ Raman laser at 1.5 µm. We achieve 685 mW of CW eye-safe emission at 1524.5 nm by the use of a 20-mm-long composite ${\rm Nd}{:}{{\rm YVO}_4}$ and 300-µm pump beam radius, with a diode-to-Stokes conversion efficiency of 4.8%. Lasers operating at ${\sim}1.5\;\unicode{x00B5}{\rm m}$ have found many important applications in various areas such as optical communication, laser radar, laser ranging, remote sensing, and spectral research.

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