Good Physical And Mechanical Properties LiNbO3 Commonly Used Material For Pockels Cells, Q-Switches
Product overview:
LiNbO3 Crystal is widely used as frequency doublers for wavelength > 1 mm and OPOs pumped at 1064 nm as well as QPM devices.
LiNbO3 is the most commonly used material for Pockels Cells,Q-Switches and phase nodulators,wavwguide substrate,and surface acoustic wave (SAW)
wafers,etc.we can provide high quality and large size LiNbO3 crystals for all of these applications.
Structural and Physical Properties of LiNbO3
Crystal Structure: | Trigonal, Space group Rjc, Point group 3m |
Melting Point: | 1253℃ |
Curie Temperature: | 1140℃ |
Mohs Hardness: | 5 |
Density: | 4.64g/cm3 |
Elastic Stiffness Coefficients: | CE11=2.33(x 1011N/m2) |
CEJJ= 2.77(x 1011N/m2) |
Optocal and Electro-optical kaibukai Properties of LiNbO3
Transparency Range: | 420-5200nm |
Refractive indices at 1064nm: | ne=2.146, na=2.220@1300nm |
ne=2.156, na=2.232@1064nm | |
ne=2.203, na=2.286@632.8nm | |
NLO Coefficients: | dJJ=86XdJ6(KDP) |
dJ1=11.6XdJ6(KDP) | |
d22=5.6XdJ6(KDP) | |
Effective NLO Coefficients: | deπ(Ⅰ)=dJ1sinθ-d22cossin3φ |
deπ(Ⅱ)=d22cos2θcos3φ | |
Electro-Optic Coefficients: | rTJJ=32pm/V, rsJJ=32pm/V |
rTJ1=10pm/V, rsJ1=8.6pm/V | |
rT22=6.8pm/V, rs22=3.4pm/V | |
Haif-Wave Voltage,DC | 3.03KV |
Electrical field//z, light z: | 4.02KV |
Electrical field//x or y, light// z: | |
Damage Threshold: | 100MW/cm2(10ns,1064nm) |
Thermal and Electrical Properties of LiNbO3
Melting Point: | 1250℃ |
Cruie Temperature: | 1140℃ |
Thermal Conductivity: | 38W/m@25℃ |
Thermal Expansion Coefficients(at 25℃) | //a,2.0x10-6/K |
//c,2.2 x10-6/K | |
Dielectric Constants: | εs11/εD=43 εT11/εD=78 |
εs11/εD=28 εsJJ /εD =43 | |
Piezoelectric Strain Constant: | D22=2.04(x10-11C/N) |
DJJ=19.22(X10-11C/N) |
Specifications
Clear aperture:>90% central area
Flatness:λ/8 @633nm
Scratch/Dig code: 20/10 to MIL-PRF-13830B
Parallelism:better than 20 arc seconds
Perpendicularity:5 arc minutes
Angle tolerance:<+-0.5°
AR coating:dual wave band AR coating at 1064/532 nm on both surface,with R<0.2% at 1064nm
and R<0.5% at 532nm per surface.Other coatings are avaliable upon request.