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Buying Laser Gain Media

Top-level product category: materials

More specific product categories: ceramic laser gain media, laser crystals, laser dyes, laser glasses, rare-earth-doped laser gain media, transition-metal-doped laser gain media

There is a wide range of laser gain media, including laser crystals, glasses, ceramics, gases, and liquids. Most modern lasers are based on solid-state gain media, available in forms such as bulk crystals and active optical fibers.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

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1. Learn about the technology

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

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With its comprehensive resources, RP Photonics helps you to well prepare purchase decisions:

2. Define your requirements

It is important to fully understand and define your requirements before you buy.

We recommend that for your preparation and for inquiries to suppliers, you draw up a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying laser gain media. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

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Find Suppliers for Laser Gain Media

47 suppliers for laser gain media are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 8 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Innovation in every fiber

Fibercore Limited
University Parkway
Chilworth Science Park
Southampton SO16 7QQ
United Kingdom
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laser gain media

Fibercore has delivered over 40 years of innovation and excellence in developing and manufacturing speciality optical fiber. All of our fiber products have been developed with our customers in mind with market leading capabilities to produce an extensive range of fibers including;

We are continuously expanding our product ranges to cover wider and more demanding customer applications. So if you have a specific development project or require a custom fiber, we would like to discuss it further with you. We will work together with you to find the best solution.

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GWU-Lasertechnik Vertriebsges. mbH
Bonner Ring 9
50374 Erftstadt
Germany
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laser gain media

Crystalline laser gain media are know as most reliable and efficient. GWU offers all common laser crystals (Nd:YVO4, Nd:YAG, Yb:YAG etc.) with a broad variety of specifications. Besides the well-established materials, innovative crystals with outstanding properties like Yb:CALGO can open new horizons for demanding laser applications. No matter if individual pieces for R & D purposes are required or cost-efficient numbers in small, medium or large batches with in-time delivery for the production line are needed: GWU’s dedicated service helps to find the best core components for your application. GWU-Lasertechnik has more than 30 years of experience in distributing laser crystals. Choose GWU to benefit from our wide knowledge and in-field experience!

Hangzhou Shalom Electro-optics Technology Co., Ltd.
A635, Boke Mansion
No. 9 Xiyuan Road
Xihu District, Hangzhou 310030
China
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laser gain media

Shalom EO offers various rare-earth-doped laser crystals, including:

  • Nd:YAG
  • Nd:Ce:YAG
  • Nd:YVO4
  • CTH:YAG
  • Er:YAG
  • Yb:YAG
  • Ti:sapphire

We also have diffusion-bonded crystals. Nd:YAG and Nd:YVO4 are popular crystals for 1064-nm lasers, Nd:Ce:YAG, CTH:YAG, and Er:YAG crystals are often used in the medical and cosmetic lasers, Ti:sapphire is for ultrafast lasers, alexandrite is for long-pulsed and picosecond 755-nm lasers, diffusion bonding crystals are useful for OEM compact lasers.

Leader in fluoride glass and optical fiber technology

Le Verre Fluoré
Rue Gabriel Voisin
Campus de Ker Lann
35170 Bruz, Brittany
France
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laser gain media

Thanks to their high rare-earth solubility (up to 100,000 ppm) and low phonon energy, LVF fluoride fibers offer dozens of active transitions, enabling a broad range of applications from visible to the mid-infrared. LVF offers the largest range of rare-earth doped fibers in the world.

LVF active fibers are available as RE doped single-mode fibers and rare-earth-doped double cladding fibers.

Laserton Optic Co., Ltd.
C506, #1 Building
Pioneering Park for Overseas Chinese Scholars
No. 69 Huayang Road
Lixia District Jinan, Shandong
China
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laser gain media

Laserton offers various types of laser crystals based on materials like Nd:YAG, Nd:YVO4, Yb:YAG and Cr4:YAG.

Also, Laserton offers gain chips based on Er:Yb:glass, which is bonded to a Co:Mg:Al2O4 saturable absorber crystal for passive Q switching. These can be used to produce eye-safe lasers emitting at 1535 nm, pumped with a laser diode at 940 nm.

Megawatt Lasers
P.O. Box 24190
Hilton Head Island, SC 29925–4190
United States
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laser gain media

MegaWatt Lasers Inc. has a large inventory of Nd:YAG, Er:YAG and CTH:YAG laser rods. We also can assist in the design and modeling for various applications.

Your reliable partner for photonics innovations!

EKSMA Optics, UAB
Dvarcioniu St. 2B
LT-10233 Vilnius
Lithuania
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laser gain media

EKSMA Optics offers a variety of laser crystal materials like neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG), Yb-doped potassium gadolinium tungstate (Yb:KGW), Yb-doped potassium yttrium tungstate (Yb:KYW), Nd-doped potassium gadolinium tungstate (Nd:KGW) and titanium-doped sapphire (Ti:sapphire).

Exail (formerly iXblue)
34, Rue de la Croix de Fer
78100 Saint Germain-en-Laye
France
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laser gain media

Exail (formerly iXblue) offers a wide range of specialty optical fibers for lasers and amplifiers. We master erbium, erbium/ytterbium, ytterbium, thulium, holmium, thulium/holmium, neodymium, dysprosium, and phosphorous gain media. PM version are available, and Large Mode Area (LMA) or Very Large Mode Area (VLMA) versions as well. Depending of the requirement, single clad fibers are available for core pumping, double clad fibers for clad pumping. Triple clad and all glass structures are also available.

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Other Suppliers
3photon
Lithuania
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AZURE Photonics Co., Ltd.
China
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Bluebean Optical Tech Ltd.
China
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CASIX Inc.
China
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CASTECH
China
Coherent Corp.
United States
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CorActive High-Tech Inc.
Canada
Core Optronics Co., Ltd
China
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Cristal Laser S. A.
France
Crylight Photonics, Inc.
China
Crylink
China
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Crystal GmbH
Germany
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Crystech Inc.
China
Dausinger & Giesen GmbH
Germany
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ELUXI Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Furukawa Electric
Japan
Fuzhou Caston Optronics Co., Ltd.
China
Fuzhou Hundreds Optics Inc.
China
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GAMDAN Optics Inc.
United States
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HAM Präzision - Hartmetallwerkzeugfabrik Andreas Maier GmbH
Germany
IL Photonics
Israel
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Impex High Tech
Germany
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JG International
China
Komlas Optische Komponenten und Lasersysteme GmbH
Germany
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M Squared Lasers Ltd.
United Kingdom
Mountain Photonics GmbH
Germany
Newlight Photonics Inc.
Canada
nLight Photonics Corporation
Canada
Northrop Grumman - Cutting Edge Optronics
United States
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nortus Optronic GmbH
Germany
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PHOTONICPARTS
Germany
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Prysmian Group
Italy
Raybium AB
Sweden
Roditi International Corporation Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Roithner LaserTechnik
Austria
Scientific Materials Corp.
United States
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Topag Lasertechnik GmbH
Germany
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Vision Lasertechnik für Forschung und Industrie GmbH
Germany
Hangzhou Yong Hee Photonics Co., Ltd.
China

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