Nd:GdVO4 is an promising material for diode pumped lasers. Like neodymium doped yttrium vanadate, the gadolinium vanadate exhibits a larger absorption and emission cross section compared with Nd:YAG. Nd:GdVO4 has additional advantage over Nd:YVO4 of much higher themal conductivity.

Nd:YVO4 optical and physical properties. Crystal structure              Zircon tetragonal, space group D4h Transparency range           400-5000nm Melting point              1780℃ Mohs hardness             5 Thermal conductive coefficient      ∥c, 5.23w/m/k, ⊥c: 11.7W/cm/k Thermal expansion coefficient       aa=1.5 x10-6/K; ac=7.3x10-6/k Lasing wavelength            1062.9nm, 1340nm Temperature coefficient          do/dT=8.5x10-6/K;  de/dT=3.0x10-6/K Stimulated emission cross-section     15x10-19cm-2 @1064nm Fluorescent lifetime           85ms@810nm Absorption coefficient           57/cm @810nm Gain bandwidth             0.96nm@1064nm Polarized laser emission         p polarization parallel to optic axis (c-axis) Damage threshold            15GW/cm2 @1064nm, 0.1ns