Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(10904143);the Fund of Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences(2008DP173016)。
Low threshold and compact cw Nd:YVO_(4)self-Raman lasers at 1176 nm and sum-frequency mixing of fundamental and first-Stokes wavelengths are demonstrated.A 20-mm Nd:YVO_(4)crystal is adopted in a compact plane-concave...