Diode-pumped CW and passively Q-switched solid-state lasers with an ultra-thin Nd:YVO/sub 4/ crystal as the gain medium

Summary form only given. Diode-pumped single-mode solid-state lasers have many advantages in coherent lidars, coherent optical communications, and high-resolution spectroscopy applications. In the last decade, single mode solid-state lasers have been constructed and demonstrated using several different gain media and a variety of techniques, including ring lasers, microchip lasers, and intracavity wave-plates to prevent spatial hole burning. In this paper, a diode-pumped, single-mode CW and passively Q-switched solid-state laser using an ultra-thin Nd:YVO/sub 4/ crystal as the gain medium has been presented.