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Buying Neodymium-doped Laser Gain Media

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More general product categories: rare-earth-doped laser gain media

Related product categories: laser crystals, rare-earth-doped fibers

Neodymium-doped laser gain media include various crystalline and glass materials, such as Nd:YAG, Nd:YVO4, Nd:YLF, and Nd:glass, as well as doped optical fibers. These materials are primarily used for lasers operating in the 1-μm spectral region, but also support other wavelengths like 1.3 μm and 0.95 μm.

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Suppliers for Neodymium-doped Laser Gain Media

55 suppliers for neodymium-doped laser gain media are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 6 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Fibercore Limited
University Parkway
Chilworth Science Park
Southampton SO16 7QQ
United Kingdom
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neodymium-doped 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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Optogama
(4Lasers)
Mokslininku str. 6B
08412 Vilnius
Lithuania
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neodymium-doped laser gain media

Optogama offers various types of neodymium-doped laser crystals:

  • Nd:KGW crystals exhibit strong and broad absorption and emission bands without significant luminescence quenching even for high doping concentrations. Optogama offers Nd:KGW crystals for medium-power but highly efficient continuous-wave (CW), Q-switched and mode-locked lasers with diode-laser and flashlamp pumping. In addition, it is possible to use Nd:KGW crystal for efficient self-Raman conversion.
  • Nd:YLF is characterized by a long lifetime of the 4F3/2 upper laser level. Compared to Nd:YAG, the negative dn/dT leads to lower thermal distortions and thus to a better output beam quality. Another distinctive feature is high UV transparency, which is favorable for pumping with xenon flashlamps.
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Exail (formerly iXblue)
34, Rue de la Croix de Fer
78100 Saint Germain-en-Laye
France
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neodymium-doped laser gain media

Exail (formerly iXblue) offers a complete range of neodymium-doped fibers with some unique properties, ideal for fiber lasers between 890 and 1100 nm.

Exail neodymium aluminosilicate double clad fibers have been developed to maximize fiber efficiency through a precisely controlled host composition. Compared to a standard neodymium-doped fiber, the 1.06-μm emission is reduced through careful fiber design optimization. Our double clad fibers are routinely tested to various parameters such as photodarkening and environmental behavior.

Single clad fibers are also proposed and would be ideal to build seeder sources.

Benefits and features:

  • host composition optimized for high energy efficiency and low clustering
  • high NA, high performance low-index cladding
  • low splicing losses, low background losses, low macrobending losses at the operating wavelength

Applications: 0.9 to 1.064-μm fiber lasers, seeder sources at 10xx nm.

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

Shalom EO offers three types of Nd-doped laser gain media, including Nd:YAG, Nd:Ce:YAG and Nd:YVO4 laser crystals for solid-state lasers.

  • Nd: YAG laser crystals are the most popular lasing media for solid-state lasers. Shalom EO offers the standard Nd:YAG rods with AR coating at 1064 nm and customized rods or crystals upon the customer's special request.
  • Nd:YVO4 crystals are often utilized in combination with high-coefficient NLO crystals (such as LBO, BBO, KTP) to convert the wavelengths of laser output from infrared to green, blue, and ultra-violet. Shalom EO offers the Nd:YVO4 crystals with an Nd doping range of 0.1% – 3% and with a maximum size of 20 × 20 mm diameter.
  • Nd:Ce:YAG crystal is an excellent laser gain media used for non-water-cooled lasers and miniature laser systems. Shalom EO offers Nd:Ce:YAG crystals, different doping concentrations and specifications are available for selection.
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EKSMA Optics, UAB
Dvarcioniu St. 2B
LT-10233 Vilnius
Lithuania
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neodymium-doped laser gain media

EKSMA Optics has high optical quality Nd:YAG laser crystals – rods with high damage threshold AR@1064 nm coatings. Custom Nd:YAG rods can be manufactured on request.

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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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Laserton has neodymium-doped laser crystals, specifically Nd:YAG and Nd:YVO4.

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