Frequently Asked Questions

Potassium Titanyl Phosphate (KTP) is a nonlinear crystal that is widely used in commercial and military lasers, including laboratory and medical systems, range-finders, lidar, optical communication, and industrial systems.

KTP crystals have a large nonlinear optical coefficient, wide angular bandwidth, small walk-off angle, broad temperature and spectral bandwidth, high electro-optic coefficient, low dielectric constant, large figure of merit, and are nonhydroscopic, chemically and mechanically stable.

KTP crystals are used for frequency doubling (SHG) of Nd-doped lasers for green/red output, frequency mixing (SFM) of Nd laser and diode laser for blue output, parametric sources (OPG, OPA, and OPO) for 0.6mm-4.5mm tunable output, electrical optical (E-O) modulators, optical switches, and directional couplers, and optical waveguides for integrated NLO and E-O devices.

KTP crystals have an orthorhombic crystal structure, a melting point of 1172°C, a Curie point of 936°C, lattice parameters of a=6.404Å, b=10.615Å, c=12.814Å, and Z=8, and a density of 2.945g/cm3.

KTP crystals have a dimension of 1x1x0.05-30x30x40mm, a phasematching type of Type II, θ=90°; φ=phase-matching angle, and typical coating of S1&S2: AR@1064nm R<0.1%; AR@532nm, R<0.25%. Customized coating is available upon customer request.

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