All solid-state Raman lasers

Abstract

Abstract: All solid-state Raman lasers have attracted great attention for various applications in the areas of medicine, biomedicine, optical communication, environmental control, and so on, due to their advantages such as simple, robust, efficient, and versatile. And solid-state Raman laser can offer good beam quantity, flexible wavelength in the infrared and visible spectral ranges by simply choosing different crystals in combination with frequency doubling technology. We present a overview of the solid-state Raman lasers, and then highlight our research work in Nd:YVO4 solid-state laser using BaWO4, SrWO4 and YVO4 as the Raman medium in continuous operation and eye-safe quasi-continuous operation. And the future development trends of solid-state Raman lasers are discussed.

Key words: laser technique；Raman lasers; all solid-state; continuous operation; eye-safe

CLC Number:

TN248

Fan Ya-xian，Wang Hui-tian. All solid-state Raman lasers[J]. J4, 2014, 31(4): 394-402.

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