supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61108021);the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(No.4102048);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.2013JBM091)
In this paper, a passively Q-switched and mode-locked c-cut Nd-doped vanadate crystal self-Raman laser at 1.17 μm is firstly demonstrated by using Cr4+:YAG. Two crystals of Nd3+:YVO4 and Nd3+:Gd VO4 are adopted to ge...