STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS
Flatness | λ/8 @ 633 nm |
Parallelism | < 20 arcsec |
Perpendicularity | < 5 arcmin |
Angle tolerance | < 30 arcmin |
Aperture tolerance | ± 0.1 mm |
Surface quality | 10/5 scratch & dig per MIL-O-13830A |
Clear aperture | 90% of full aperture |
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
Crystal structure | orthorhombic |
Point group | mm2 |
Space group | Pna21 |
Lattice constants, Å | a = 6.404, b = 10.616, c = 12.814, z = 8 |
Density, g/cm3 | 3.01 |
Melting point, °C | 1172 |
Transition temperature, °C | 936 |
Mohs hardness | 5 |
Thermal expansion coefficients, °C-1 | ax = 11×10-6, ay = 9×10-6, az = 0.6×10-6 |
Thermal conductivity, W/m*K | 13 |
Not hygroscopic |
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
Transparency | 350–4400 nm | |
Refractive indices | at 1064 nm | at 532 nm |
nx = 1.7404 | nx = 1.7797 | |
ny = 1.7479 | ny = 1.7897 | |
nz = 1.8296 | nz = 1.8877 | |
Thermooptic coefficients in 0.4 – 1.0 μm range | ∂nx/∂T = 1.1×10-5 (K)-1 | |
∂ny/∂T = 1.3×10-5 (K)-1 | ||
∂nz/∂T = 1.6×10-5 (K)-1 | ||
Wavelength dispersion of refractive indices | nx2=3.0067+0.0395/(λ2-0.04251)-0.01247*λ2 | |
ny2=3.0319+0.04152/(λ2-0.04586)-0.01337*λ2 | ||
nz2 =3.3134+0.05694/(λ2-0.05941)-0.016713*λ2 |
NONLINEAR PROPERTIES
Phase matching range for: | |
Type 2 SHG in x-y plane | 0.99÷1.08 μm |
Type 2 SHG in x-z plane | 1.1÷3.4 μm |
Type 2, SHG@1064 nm, cut angle θ=90°, φ=23.5° | |
Walk-off | 4 mrad |
Angular acceptances | Δθ = 55 mrad * cm Δφ = 10 mrad * cm |
Thermal acceptance | ΔT = 22 K * cm |
Spectral acceptance | Δν = 0.56 nm * cm |
Up to 80% extracavity SHG efficiency | |
Effective nonlinearity | |
x-y plane | deoe = doee = d15sin2φ + d24cos2φ |
x-z plane | doeo = deoo = d24sinθ |
d31= ± 1.95 pm/V d32=± 3.9 pm/V | |
d33= ± 15.3 pm/V d24= d32 d15= d31 | |
Damage threshold | >500 MW/cm2 for pulses λ=1064 nm, τ=10 ns, 10 Hz, TEM00 |
EKSMA Optics KTP Crystals
135.97 kB |
KTP (Potassium titanyl phosphate) is a nonlinear crystal mostly used in extracavity configuration when a single pass through the crystal is required.
KTP crystals are optimized for SHG intracavity configuration in low peak power CW lasers. Due to the large number of passes through the crystal, low insertion losses and high homogeneity are essential for conversion efficiency. We select the highest quality material by SHG efficiency mapping of each crystal. Fine surface polishing and dual band AR coatings with very low losses allow EKSMA Optics to produce KTP crystals suitable for intracavity SHG application.