birefringent crystal
Birefringent crystals include YVO4 and α-BBO. Yttrium vanadate (YVO4) features a wide transmission range, high transmittance, a large birefringence coefficient and easy processing; α-BBO is a uniaxial negative crystal with large birefringence over the wide transmission range of 190-3500nm, excellent performance in UV and high-power applications, and no nonlinear optical properties because its crystal structure is centrosymmetric.
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Birefringent crystals include YVO4 and α-BBO. Yttrium vanadate (YVO4) features a wide transmission range, high transmittance, a large birefringence coefficient and easy processing; α-BBO is a uniaxial negative crystal with large birefringence over the wide transmission range of 190-3500nm, excellent performance in UV and high-power applications, and no nonlinear optical properties because its crystal structure is centrosymmetric.
Specifications
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Birefringent Crystal | Yttrium vanadate (YVO4) single crystal is a birefringent crystal material with excellent physical and optical properties. It features a wide transmission range, high transmittance, large birefringence and easy processing. Therefore, YVO4 crystals are widely used in optical fiber communication and are key materials in passive optical communication devices such as isolators, rotators, retarders and polarizers. |
| Birefringent Crystal α-BBO | α-BBO (α-BaB2O4) is a negative uniaxial crystal with large birefringence over a wide transmission range of 190-3500nm. α-BBO performs excellently especially in UV and high-power applications. The physical, chemical, optical and thermal properties of α-BBO are similar to those of BBO crystal, but due to the centrosymmetry of its crystal structure, α-BBO does not exhibit nonlinear optical properties. |
Applications
In the optical fiber communication field, a key material for passive optical communication devices such as optical isolators, rotators, retarders and polarizers; UV and high-power applications
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