High-power and high-energy Nd:YAG-Nd:YVO 4 hybrid gain Raman yellow laser.

We present a simple and reliable method to successfully reconcile the average output power and pulse energy of the solid-state Raman yellow lasers. By virtue of the hybrid laser gain of Nd:YAG and Nd:YVO4 in an intracavity frequency-doubled Raman, much higher pumping is allowed and nearly linear polarized fundamental and Stokes waves can be delivered for efficient non-critical phase matching. 7.6 W of yellow output at 588 nm is obtained under incident pump power of 42.0 W at the pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 110 kHz and the pulse energy reaches 0.41 mJ under the same incident pump power at the PRF of 10 kHz. (C) 2020 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement