Nd:YAB

Nd:YAB (Yttrium aluminum borate, YAl₃(BO₃)₄, hereafter referred to as YAB), is grown by the flux method with a modified molybdate flux system. And it provides the possibility of realizing diode-pumped visible lasers by self-frequency-doubling (SFD) the main infrared laser radiation lines.

Properties

• lattice parameters (Ref: Luo Z D, Lin J T, Hang A D, Huang Y C and Qui M W 1989 Proc. SPIE 1104 132)
  • a=0.9293 nm
  • b=0.9293 nm
  • c=0.7245 nm
• space group : R32 of the trigonal system