and YVO laser crystalsSugiyama, Akira; Nara, Yasunaga
We succeeded in the fabrication of bonded laser crystals composed of a neodymium-doped YVO laser crystal (Nd:YVO) and its host crystals YVO by a newly developed dry etching technique using an argon ion beam. The optical distortion caused by the bonded interface of size 5 mm 
6 mm was estimated to be 0.05-wave at 633 nm. From the comparison of laser performance pumped by a laser diode, the bonded crystals could increase the laser output power by nearly twice that of the non-bonded crystals with the same degree of polarization of 99.2 %. To analyze the mechanism of the enhanced reduction of the thermal load in the bonded crystals, numerical simulations with a finite-element method were also performed.
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: | p.1085 - 1090 |
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: | 2005/00 |
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Keywords |
: | Direct Bonding; Laser Crystal; Nd:YVO4; Finite-element Method |
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