Abstract:
In order to improve the amplification efficiency of high repetition frequency Nd:YVO
4 laser, a new method of double-pass amplification for the uniaxial crystal like Nd:YVO
4 was introduced. The Faraday isolator and Nd:YVO
4 was placed with a rotation angle of 45°, and this method could be applied to keep the polarization direction of the seed laser in parallel with the Nd:YVO
4 c-axis. The simulation results show that the seed laser with 1W average power could be amplified to 36.2W in this double-pass amplification, and the amplification factor was improved 41.5% corresponding to a amplification method consisted with a polarizer and a quarter wave plate. This study is very important for laser amplify of weak seeds with Nd:YVO
4 as laser amplification.