Neodymium doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Nd:YAG) laser rods are solid-state laser crystals with high gain, narrow linewidth and low lasing threshold. It is used for pulsed high energy and high power applications.
EKSMA Optics offers Nd:YAG laser rods of standard specifications with high damage threshold AR coatings @ 1064 nm.
Nd doping level - 0.8% or 1.1%
Orientation - crystalline direction
Surface quality - 10-5 scratch & dig (MIL-PRF-13830B)
Parallelism - <10 arcsec