CASTECH, Inc. Datasheets for Optical Crystals
Optical crystals are transparent in different spectral regions, depending upon the crystal material.
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| Product Name | Notes |
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| Birefringent Crystals -- a-BBO | a-BBO (a-BaB2O4) is a negative uniaxial crystal which has large birefringence over a broad transparent range of 190nm to 3500nm. a-BBO is an excellent crystal especially in UV and high... |
| NLO Crystals -- BBO Crystal | Beta-Barium Borate (ß-BaB2O4 or BBO), discovered and developed by FIRSM, CAS (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences), now is manufactured and marketed by... |
| NLO Crystals -- BIBO Crystal | BiB3O6 (BIBO) is a newly developed nonlinear optical crystal. It possesses large effective nonlinear coefficient, high damage threshold and inertness with respect to moisture. Its nonlinear coefficient is 3.5 -... |
| Scintillation Crystals -- Cadium Tungstate Scintillation Crystal | Cadium tungstate (CdWO4, CWO) single crystal is an important scintillation materials applied in the radiation detection technology, especially for security checking , industrial CT and medical imaging. Large-size CWO single... |
| Laser Crystals -- Nd:YLF | CASTECH grows Nd:YLF crystals using Czochralski method. The use of high quality starting materials for crystal growth, whole boule interferometry, and precise inspection of scattering particle in crystal using He-Ne... |
| Laser Crystals -- Cr:LiSAF | CASTECH provides high quality, Cr-doped Colquiriite crystal (Cr:LiSAF) using the Czochralski technique. It is excellent laser material with high energy storage and high slope efficiency. It is also ideal working... |
| Laser Crystals -- Nd:GdVO4 | CASTECH's Nd:GdVO4 is featured by: • Large stimulated emission cross section at laser wavelength; • High absorption coefficient and wide bandwidth at pump wavelength; • Low dependency on pump wavelength; |
| Scintillation Crystals -- LaCl3(Ce) | Cerium-doped lanthanum chloride LaCl3(Ce) is a newly developed scintillation crystal with hexagonal structure, colorless, transparent. It offers superior energy resolution, fast emission and excellent linearity. It has light output similar... |
| Scintillation Crystals -- CsI | Cesium Iodide is a material with high ?-ray stopping power due to its relative high density and atomic number. For scintillation counting, it is used either in its undoped form... |
| NLO Crystals -- CLBO Crystal | Cesium Lithium Borate (CsLiB6O10,CLBO) is a newly developed crystal with excellent UV nonlinear feature, and widely used for semiconductor inspection, micro processing,bio-medical,UV-LIDAR,etc. Compared to BBO,it has larger spectral and temperature... |
| NLO Crystals -- MgO:LiNbO3 Crystal | Compared with LiNbO3 crystal, MgO: LiNbO3 crystal exhibits its particular advantages for NCPM frequency doubling (SHG) of Nd:Lasers, mixing (SFG) and optical parametric oscillators (OPOs). The SHG efficiencies of over... |
| Laser Crystals -- Cr4+:YAG | Cr4+:YAG Crystal is an excellent crystal for passively Q-switching diode pumped or lamp-pumped Nd:YAG, Nd:YLF, Nd:YVO4 or other Nd and Yb doped lasers at wavelength from 0.8 to 1.2 µm. |
| Laser Crystals -- Diffusion Bonded Crystal | Diffusion Bonded Crystals consist of one laser crystal and one or two undoped material. They are combined by optical contact method and further bonded under high temperature. Diffusion Bonded Crystal... |
| Laser Crystals -- Er,Cr:YSGG | Er,Cr:YSGG (Erbium, Chromium doped Yttrium Scandium Gallium Garnet) provides an efficient laser crystal for generating 2800nm light in an important water absorption band. It becomes one of the most promising... |
| Laser Crystals -- Er:YAG | Er:YAG is an excellent laser crystal which lases at 2940 nm. This wavelength is the most readily absorbed into water and hydroxylapatite of all existing wavelengths and is considered a... |
| Laser Crystals -- Ho:Cr:Tm:YAG | Ho:Cr:Tm:YAG is a high efficient laser material which lases at 2.1 µm. It has wide applications in surgery, dentistry, atmospheric testing, etc. |
| Laser Crystals -- Nd:Ce:YAG | In double doped Nd:Ce:YAG crystals Cerium are chosen as sensitizer for Nd3+ ions because of its strong absorption in UV spectral region at flash lamp pumping and efficient energy transfer... |
| NLO Crystals -- LiIO3 Crystal | LiIO3 crystal is one of the oldest commercial NLO crystals. For the high NLO coefficient. LiIO3 is used for frequency-doubling, tripling and mixing of low and medium power lasers. CASTECH... |
| Birefringent Crystals -- LiNbO3 | LiNbO3 crystal combines low cost, good mechanical and physical properties as well as high optical homogeneity. Therefore, LiNbO3 wedges have been widely used in fiber isolators and circulators. |
| AO and EO Crystals -- LiNbO3 | LiNbO3 is widely used as electro-optic modulators and Q-switches for Nd:YAG, Nd:YLF and Ti:Sapphire lasers as well as modulators for fiber optics. |
| AO and EO Crystals -- LiTaO3 | LiTaO3 is an E-O crystal widely used for E-O devices, due to its good optical NLO and E-O properties, as well as high damage threshold. CASTECH supplies high quality LiTaO3... |
| NLO Crystals -- LBO Crystal | Lithium Triborate (LiB3O5 or LBO) is an excellent nonlinear optical crystal discovered and developed by FIRSM, CAS (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences). |
| Scintillation Crystals -- NaI(Tl) | NaI (TI) is the most extensively used material of all the available scintillators. It is grown by host material sodium iodide doped with appropriate percentage of thallium. The main emission... |
| Laser Crystals -- Nd:YAG | Nd:YAG is the earliest and most famous laser host crystal. Since it combines great advantages in many basic properties, Nd:YAG is the ubiquitous presence for near-infrared solid-state lasers and their... |
| Laser Crystals -- Nd:YVO4 | Nd:YVO4 is the most efficient laser host crystal for diode pumping among the current commercial laser crystals, especially, for low to middle power density. This is mainly for its absorption... |
| Laser Crystals -- Nd:KGW | Neodymium doped Potassium-Gadolinium Tungstate crystals (Nd:KGd(WO4)2 or Nd:KGW) is an excellent laser gain material which has low laser oscillations threshold and higher emission section. The fluorescent concentration quench effect of... |
| NLO Crystals -- KD*P & KDP | Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate (KDP) and Potassium Dideuterium Phosphate (KD*P ) are among the most widely-used commercial NLO materials, characterized by good UV transmission, high damage threshold, and high birefringence, though... |
| NLO Crystals -- GTR-KTP Crystal | Potassium Titanyl Phosphate (KTiOPO4 or KTP) is an excellent NLO crystal, widely used in both commercial and military lasers. However conventional KTP suffer a significant drawbacks. The gray track phenomena... |
| NLO Crystals -- KTP Crystal | Potassium Titanyl Phosphate (KTiOPO4 or KTP) is widely used in both commercial and military lasers including laboratory and medical systems, range-finders, lidar, optical communication and industrial systems. |
| NLO Crystals -- KTA Crystal | Potassium Titanyle Arsenate (KTiOAsO4), or KTA crystal, is an excellent nonlinear optical crystal for Optical Parametric Oscillation (OPO) application. It has better non-linear optical and electro-optical coefficients, significantly reduced absorption... |
| NLO Crystals -- RTP Crystal | RTP (Rubidium Titanyle Phosphate - RbTiOPO4) is an isomorph of KTP crystal which is used in nonlinear and Electro-Optical applications. It has advantages of high damage threshold (about 1.8 times... |
| Magneto-Optical Crystals -- TGG Crystal | TGG is an excellent magneto-optical crystal used in various Faraday devices (Rotator and Isolator) in the range of 400nm-1100nm, excluding 475-500nm. |
| Birefringent Crystals -- YVO4 | The Yttrium Orthovanadate (YVO4) is a positive uniaxial crystal grown with Czochralski method. It has good temperature stability and physical and mechanical properties. It is ideal for optical polarizing components... |
| Laser Crystals -- Ti:Sapphire | Titanium doped Sapphire (Ti:Sapphire) is the most widely used laser crystal for widely tunable and ultrashort pulsed lasers with high gain and power outputs. CASTECH possesses the advanced growth method... |
| Magneto-Optical Crystals -- TSAG Crystal | TSAG is a key isolator material for next generation fiber laser. As an ideal magneto-optic crystal in visible and infrared regions,TSAG has the advantages of high Verdet constant,excellent thermal and... |
| Laser Crystals -- Yb:CaGdAlO4 Crystal | Yb:CaGdAlO4(called CALGO) is a promising new laser gain material which possess several important advantages. The crystal structure of CALGO is tetragonal. When it is pumped at 979nm under pi configuration,... |
| Laser Crystals -- Yb:YAG | Yb:YAG is one of the most promising laser-active materials and more suitable for diode-pumping than the traditional Nd-doped systems. Compared with the commonly used Nd:YAG crystal, Yb:YAG crystal has a... |
| Laser Crystals -- Yb:KGW | Ytterbium doped Potassium-Gadolinium Tungstate crystals - (Yb:KGd(WO4)2 or Yb:KGW) is an excellent laser gain material which has important advantages over the widely used Nd3+ doped materials. Its broad spectral emission... |