DETAILS, FICTION AND ND YAG LASER

The mixture of thermal growth coefficient, conductivity and index of refraction transform with temperature (dn/dT) in Nd:YAG presents appropriate thermal lensing and birefringence loss apart from large rod diameters and moderate pulse repetition charge. Nd:glass has 1-fifteenth the thermal conductivity of Nd:YAG, so it is far more confined in repet