Thermal effect of Nd：GdVO4 crystal end-pumped by fiber coupled diode laser

In order to study the thermal effect of laser crystal end-pumped by diode lasers,the temperature rise and thermal distortion on pumped-face of the laser crystal were analytically studied.After analyzing the working characteristics of the laser crystal,taking into account of the aeolotropism of heat conduction of Nd:GdVO4 crystal,the general analytical expressions of the temperature field and thermal distortion field of Nd:GdVO4 crystal end-pumped by super-Gaussian beam were obtained based on the Poisson equation for aeolotropic heat conduction.The effect of different orders and spot size of super-Gaussian beam on the temperature field and the thermal distortion field of Nd:GdVO4 crystal was quantitatively analyzed.The results show that the maximal temperature rise and thermal distortion on the pumped-face of Nd:GdVO4 crystal doped with 0.012 (atomicity fraction) neodymium ion are 419.3℃ and 0.711 m respectively with the fifth-order super-Gaussian beam central-end-pumping,if the output power of diode laser is 30W,the transmission efficiency of the optical focusing coupler is 85%.The results have the theoretical instruction for estimating the thermal focus lens of Nd:GdVO4 crystal and designing the heat insensitive resonant cavity of lasers.