Pulsed lights with cylindrical vector symmetry were produced from an end-pumped and passively-Qswitched Nd:YAG ceramic microchip laser with a piece of Cr 4+ :YAG crystal as saturable absorber and two multilayer concentric subwavelength gratings as polarization output couplers respectively. For radially polarized output, the averaged laser power reached 450 mW with a slope effi ciency of 30.2 %. The laser pulse had a peak power of 759 W, pulse duration of 86 ns and 6.7-kHz repetition rate with a polarization degree of 97.4 % at 3.7-W absorbed pump power. For azimuthally polarized output, the laser power reached 512 mW with a slope efficiency of nearly 60 %. The pulse had 1.15-kW peak power with 40-ns duration and 11-kHz repetition rate with a polarization degree of 97.6 % at 3.9-W absorbed pump power. These results manifest a practical, high-power laser system operating with a radial or azimuthal polarization could be established in an end-pumped microchip laser resonator by combining the passive Q switch technique with polarization control function of photonic crystal grating.