Abstract
We demonstrated, to our best knowledge, the first "all-solid-state" Cr:Forsterite laser, which was pumped by a diode-pumped, Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. We achieved slope efficiency as high as 19.5%, output energy of ~ 0.25 mJ at 1.4 mJ absorbed pump power and pulsewidth of ~ 5.6 ns.
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