Birefringent Crystals: YVO4 (Yttrium Orthovanadate) | LiNbO3 (Lithium Niobate)
Description
The Birefringent Crystals for Optical Applications are high-quality crystals designed for various optical devices and applications. Made from YVO4, LiNbO3, and α-BBO materials, these crystals offer excellent birefringence properties, wide light transmission range, and easy processing.
They are ideal for use in fiber optic isolators and circulators, interleavers, beam displacers, and other polarizing optics. With their superior mechanical and physical properties, these crystals are widely used in passive optical communication devices such as optical isolators, circulators, polarizers, and more.
Birefringent Crystals: YVO4 (Yttrium Orthovanadate) | LiNbO3 (Lithium Niobate)
Specifications |
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| Crystal Type: | BBO (Beta Barium Borate), LiNbO3 (Lithium Niobate) |
| Phase Mathcing Type: | Not Applicable |
| Mounting: | Unmounted |
| Width: | -- mm |
| Height: | -- mm |
| Length: | -- mm |
| Flatness: | Not Available |
| Surface Quality (Scratch-Dig): | 20-10 |
| AR Coating: | One side, Both Sides, Not Coated |
| Size Tolerance: | ±0.1 mm |
| Directional Accuracy: | ±0.5° |
| Surface Quality: | 20/10 |
| Clear Aperture: | > 90 % |
| Flatness: | < λ/4@633nm |
| Parallelism: | < 15 arc sec |
| Perpendicularity: | < 10 arc min |
Features
- Wide light transmittance range
- High transmittance and birefringence coefficient
- Easy processing and excellent internal quality
- Low absorption and high damage threshold
- Suitable for UV transmission applications
- Customizable coating options
Applications
- Fiber optic isolators and circulators
- Interleavers and beam displacers
- Glan prisms and polarizing beam splitters
- Optical communication devices
- Passive optical components
- Polarizers and waveplates
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China
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On FindLight:
since 2023
Frequently Asked Questions
The birefringent crystals are used in various optical devices and applications such as fiber optic isolators and circulators, interleavers, beam displacers, and other polarizing optics.
YVO4 crystals offer wide light transmittance range, high transmittance, high birefringence coefficient, and easy processing.
LiNbO3 crystals have low use loss, good mechanical and physical properties, wide light transmission range, high optical uniformity, and easy processing.
No, α-BBO crystals cannot be used as a nonlinear crystal due to their centrosymmetric crystal structure.
The coating options can be customized as per customers' requirements.