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A high average power and high beam quality nanosecond laser is presented that is based on CW diode side-pumped Nd:YVO4 grazing-incidence slab amplifier.A TEM00,passively Q-switched diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser as the seed laser,generating a M2≈1.3 beam train of 0.25W,2.3ns pulses with adjustable repetition rate in the range 5-20kHz.After double-pass amplification,more than 20W of output power with a beam quality of M2≈1.4 is obtained at an optical-optical efficiency of 35%.The high brightness of this laser system seems ideal for nonlinear optics and laser processing applications.