A high brightness diode-pumped, Nd-YAG solid state laser has been designed, fabricated, and tested. This phase conjugated master oscillator/power amplifier (MOPA) device produces 20-ns Q-switched pulses at 2500 Hz at an average power of 690 W and a beam quality of 1.1/spl times/DL when the pump diodes are operated at 27.5% duty cycle. With an external KTP doubler, this device has produced 175 W of green average power at a beam quality of 1.5 /spl times/ DL and a conversion efficiency of 45% over continuous operating times as long as one hour. This 1.06 /spl mu/m result is believed to be the highest average power brightness achieved, and the 532-nm performance is both the highest average green power and the highest average brightness ever reported.
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