| Crystal | Nd:YVO4 | Nd:GdVO4 | Nd:YAG | Ti:Sapphire |
| Crystal structure | Zircon Tetragonal | Zircon Tetragonal | Cubic | Hexagonal |
| Space group | D4h-14/amd | D4h-14/amd | ||
| Cell parameter | a=b=7.1193 c=6.2892 |
a=b=7.212 c=6.350 |
12.01A | a=4.758 c=12.991 |
| Melting point | 1825℃ | 1780℃ | 1970℃ | 2040℃ |
| Mosh hardness | 4-5 | 4-5 | 8.5 | 9 |
| Density | 4.22g/cm3 | 5.47g/cm3 | 4.5g/cm3 | 3.98g/cm3 |
| Thermal expansion | ||||
| Thermal conductivity | //c: 5.23W/m/K ⊥c:5.10W/m/K |
⊥c:11.7W/m/K | 15W/m/K | 25.12W/m/K |
| Crystal | Nd:YVO4 | Nd:GdVO4 | Ti: Sapphire | Nd:YAG | Yb:YAG | Er:YAG | Ho:Cr:Tm:YAG |
| Lasing wavelength | 914,1064, 1342 | 912, 1063, 1340 | 660-1050 | 947,1064, 1319 | 1030 | 2940 | 2097 |
| Pump wavelength | 808.5 | 808.4 | 400-600 | 807.5 | 940, 970 | 600-800 | 400-800 |
| Emission cross-section | 15.6x10-19/cm2 | 7.6x10-19/cm2 | 3-4x10-19/cm2 | 6.5x10-19/cm2 | 2.0x10-19/cm2 | 3.0x10-19/cm2 | 7.0x10-19/cm2 |
| Fluorescent lifetime | 90us | 95us | 3.2us | 230us | 1.2us | 8.5us | |
| Absorption line width | 4nm | 3nm | 1nm | 8nm | 4nm | ||
| Absorption coefficient | 31.4cm-1@810nm | 74cm-1@810nm | 7.1cm-1@810nm | ||||
| Intrinsic loss | 0.02cm-1 | 0.02cm-1 | <0.003cm-1 | ||||
| Gain bandwidth | 0.96nm | 0.8nm | 0.6nm | 9nm | |||
| Polarized | //c | unpolarized | |||||
| D coe | >60% | >60% | >40% | ||||