A laser diode partially end-pumped,electro-optically Q-switched,Yb∶Y3Al5O12 (Yb∶YAG) slab laser was reported.We obtained output energy of 14.6 m J/pulse with a pulse width of 30 ns at a repetition frequency of 2 kHz,and the corresponding peak power was 480 kW.The beam quality factors M2 in the unstable direction and the stable direction was 1.32 and 1.25,respectively.