Nd:YVO4
Shown to have excellent physical, optical, and mechanical properties along with a high efficiency, the Nd:YVO4 (Neodymium Doped Yttrium Vanadate) crystal enjoys great demand in a number of applications including medical diagnosis equipment, laser printing, and machining.
In addition, it can mark plastic and metals and plays a huge role in diverse domains like spectroscopy, lighting, wafer inspection, and material processing.
Why Buy Nd:YVO4 Crystals?
With its favorable attributes, the Nd:YVO4 crystal is also widely applied as laser material to diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers to yield stable and powerful red, green and infrared laser. Whether you’re looking to buy crystals for Nd:YVO4 lasers or other applications, it’d be worthwhile to note the additional advantages offered by these crystals.
Listed below are the benefits of GAMDAN Optic’s Nd:YVO4 crystals, in comparison to the Nd:YAG material for diode-pumping applications:
Low Lasing Threshold – They possess a lower lasing threshold and higher slope efficiency. The low lasing threshold partly contributes to the high pump absorption.
Large Stimulated Emission Cross-Section – Our Nd:YVO4 crystals for sale offer a large stimulated emission cross-section at lasing wavelength, which again leads to a high pumping absorption.
Low Dependency on Pumping Wavelength – They have a low dependency on the pumping wavelength and an easier to yield single mode output. Due to their ability to provide single longitudinal mode outputs, Nd:YVO4 based diode pumped solid state lasers are gaining a larger proportion of the market.
Higher Absorption – Nd:YVO4 lasers possess a higher absorption over a wide pumping wavelength bandwidth. Some of the factors that contribute to their high pump absorption include higher laser cross section, wider gain bandwidth, lower thermal conductivity, and a high refractive index.
Permit High Repetition Rates – Our Nd:YVO4 crystals allow for the highest repetition rates and shortest pulses while Nd:YAG crystals are great for high pulse energies at low repetition rates.
Lower Impurities – Nd:YVO4 crystals have a much smaller amount of non-controlled impurities and that too without Fe ions. In addition, they have a smaller amount of growth defects, making them more suitable for a wider range of applications than Nd:YAG crystals. Therefore, an increasing number of equipment manufacturers, defense contractors, and research and development companies including universities are looking to buy neodymium doped yttrium vanadate crystals.
Lower Susceptibility – Nd:YVO4 crystals don’t yield to gamma irradiation as do YAG crystals.
Neodymium Doped Yttrium Vanadate Crystals for Sale
If you’re looking for crystals with specific dopant types or doping levels, your search ends right here, at GAMDAN Optics. We fabricate Nd:YVO4 crystals in-house and provide customers with various types of dopants and different doping levels of these crystals, on a competitive pricing basis.