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Optics Communications 241 (2004) 167–172 /locate/optcom Generation of 11.5 W coherent red-light by intra-cavity frequency-doubling of a side-pumped Nd:YAG laser in a 4-cm LBO Zhipei Sun a,b,*, Ruining Li a, Yong Bi a,b, Xiaodong Yang a,b, Yong Bo a, Ying Zhang a,b, Guiling Wang a, Wuli Zhao a, Hongbo Zhang a, Wei Hou a, Dafu Cui a, Zuyan Xu a a Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, PR China b Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, PR China Received 1 March 2004; received in revised form 17 June 2004; accepted 29 June 2004 Abstract We report the generation of high-power, quasi-continuous wave red-light up to 11.5 W in a 4-cm LiB3O5 crystal with intracavity frequency-doubling of two compact and simple side-pumped Nd:YAG laser modules under a repetition rate of 3.5 kHz. The beam quality of M2 value is 15±3 in both directions. The short-term stability of the red-light source is better than 1% at an output of 9 W. Other characteristics of the red-light laser were also experimentally studied and presented. 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 42.65.Ky; 42.60.v; 42.55.Xi Keywords: Red light; Nd:YAG red light; Nd:YAG laser; Intracavity frequency-doubling; Diode-pumped laser 1. Introduction image projection systems, laser therapy and pump- ing source for tunable lasers such as Cr:LiSAF. With its all-solid-state concept, diode-pumped The all-solid-state concept assumes additional solid-stat