Nd: YAG Crystals
Nd: YAG laser crystals, Neodymium doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd: YAG) is the earliest, most famous, and most widely used laser crystal. Because of its excellent basic properties, Nd: YAG is still often used in near-far-infrared solid-state lasers and their frequency doubling and frequency more triple, and can also be used in diode-pumped all-solid-state microlasers. The high-quality continuous laser output of red, green, and blue is more efficient and easier to realize than Nd: YVO4; Nd: YAG is also widely used in military, scientific research, medical and industrial lasers, such as various specifications of rangefinder, photoelectric countermeasure equipment system, high-performance laser instruments, laser therapeutic instruments, beauty instruments, laser marking machines, drilling machines, and other laser processing machinery. When high power, high energy, Q-switch, and mode-locked ultrashort pulse laser are needed, Nd: YAG is the preferred laser working material.
Main advantages:
◇ good optical and mechanical properties
◇ stable chemical performance
◇ it can produce multiple wavelengths of 946nm, 1064nm, and 1319nm
◇ high power output can reach kW level
◇ good thermal conductivity and thermal shock resistance
◇ applicable to a variety of working modes (continuous, pulse, q - switch, mode-locking)
Specifications:
| Orientation |
<111> or <100> within 5 degree |
Wavefront Distortion |
≤Lambda/8 @ 633nm |
| Extinction Ratio |
≥28 dB |
Parallelism |
≤ 10 arc second |
| Perpendicularity |
≤ 5 arc minute |
Flatness |
≤ Lambda/10 @ 633nm |
| Surface Quality |
10/5 S/D (per MIL-O-13830A) |
Chamfer |
<0.1mm x 45 degree |
Physical and Optical Properties:
| Laser Wavelength |
1064nm |
Stimulate Emission Cross Section |
2.8x10-19cm-2 |
| Relaxation Time of Terminal Leasing Level |
30 ns |
Radiative Lifetime |
550 ms |
| Spontaneous Fluorescence |
230 ms |
Loss Coefficient |
0.003 cm-1 @ 1064 nm |
| Effective Emission Cross Section |
2.8 x 10-19cm2 |
Linewidth |
0.6 nm |
| Index of Refraction |
1.82 |
Pump Wavelength |
807.5nm |
| Chemical Formula |
Nd: Y3A15O12 |
Crystal Structure |
Cubic |
| Lattice Parameters |
12.01Å |
Concentration |
~ 1.2 x 1020 cm-3 |
| Melting Point |
1970℃ |
Mohs Hardness |
8.5 |
| Density |
4.56g/cm3 |
Thermal Expansion Coefficient |
[111]Direction:7.8×10-6 /℃(0~250℃) |
| Thermal Conductivity |
14W/m/K(@20℃) and 10.5W/m/K(@100℃) |
APPLICATION
● Nd: YAG is a widely used solid-state laser material adopted by R&D, medical, industrial, and military customers. For example, it can operate in the following applications.
● Nd: YAG can produce blue laser with the frequency-doubling of 946nm
● Nd: YAG can be operated in a very high power laser up to kw level at 1064nm
● Nd: YAG can be Q-switched with Cr4+YAG directly
● Nd: YAG can be used for high power green laser for SHG@1064nm
A Part of Inventory for Nd: YAG Crystals
| P/N |
Doping |
Cut Angle |
Size(mm) |
Coating |
| YAG-11-0305 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.3x50 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-0404 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.4x40 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-0505 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.5x50 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-05115 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.5x115 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-0608 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.6x80 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-0610 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.6x100 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-06115 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.6x115 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-0612 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.6x120 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-0615 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.6x150 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-0708 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.7x80 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-0710 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.7x100 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-07115 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.7x115 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-0714 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.7x140 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-0808 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.8x85 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-0810 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.8x100 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-0811 |
1.1% |
<111> |
Dia.8x110 |
AR/AR@1064nm |
| YAG-07-4425 |
0.7% |
<111> |
4x4x25 |
S1:AR@1064&808nm S2:AR@1064nm |
| YAG-11-332-C4/C3 |
1.1% |
<111> |
3x3x2 |
S1:HR@946&473&HT@1064 &1319&808nm S2:AR@946&473nm |
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