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LiNbO3

LiNbO3 Crystal Lithium Niobate

 

Lithium niobate (LiNbO3, LN) is a multi-purpose material in photonics and optoelectronics fields. It features excellent nonlinear, electro-optic, and piezoelectric properties. it 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.

 

Technical parameters of LiNbO3

Tolerance of cutting angle

△θ≤±0.25°,△φ≤±0.25°

Tolerance of dimension

Dimension+0/-0.1 mmL±0.1mm

Flatness

λ/10 @ 632.8nm

Wavefront distortion

λ/8@ 632.8nm

Surface quality

10/5 per MIL-O-13830A

Parallelism

20

Perpendicularity

5

Clear Aperture:

> 90%

Chamfer:

< 0.1 mm @ 45°

Size

Upon customer request

Coating

AR/HR coating upon customer’s request

Electrodes

Gold/Chrome plated on X-faces

Damage Threshold

750MW/CM2 at 1064nm, TEM00, 10ns, 10Hz

Quality Warranty Period

One year under proper use

 

Optical and Nonlinear properties of LiNbO3 crystal 

Transparency Range

160-2600nm

SHG Phase Matchable Range

551-2600nm (Type I) 790-2150nm (Type II)

Therm-optic Coefficient (/, λ in μm)

dnx/dT=-9.3x10-6

dny/dT=-13.6x10-6

dnz/dT=(-6.3-2.1λ)x10-6

Absorption Coefficients

<0.1%/cm at 1064nm <0.3%/cm at 532nm

Angle Acceptance

6.54mrad·cm (φ, Type I,1064 SHG)

15.27mrad·cm (θ, Type II,1064 SHG)

Temperature Acceptance

4.7·cm (Type I, 1064 SHG)

7.5·cm (Type II, 1064 SHG)

Spectral Acceptance

1.0nm·cm (Type I, 1064 SHG)

1.3nm·cm (Type II, 1064 SHG)

Walk-off Angle

0.60° (Type I 1064 SHG)

0.12° (Type II 1064 SHG)

NLO Coefficients

deff(I)=d32cosΦ (Type I in XY plane)

deff(I)=d31cos2θ+d32sin2θ (Type I in XZ plane)

deff(II)=d31cosθ (Type II in YZ plane)

deff(II)=d31cos2θ+d32sin2θ (Type II in XZ plane)

Non-vanished NLO susceptibilities

d31=1.05± 0.09 pm/V

d32= -0.98± 0.09 pm/V

d33=0.05± 0.006 pm/V

Sellmeier Equations (λ in μm)

nx2=2.454140+0.011249/(λ2-0.011350)-0.014591λ2-6.60×10-5λ4

ny2=2.539070+0.012711/(λ2-0.012523)-0.018540λ2+2.00×10-4λ4

nz2=2.586179+0.013099/(λ2-0.011893)-0.017968λ2-2.26×10-4λ4

 

Physical properties of LiNbO3 crystal

NLO Coefficients

d33 = 34.4 pm/V

d31 = d15 = 5.95 pm/V

d22 = 3.07 pm/V

Effective NLO coefficients

deff =5.7 pm/V for frequency doubling 1300 nm;

deff =5.3 pm/V for OPO pumped at   1064 nm;

deff =17.6 pm/V for   quasi-phase-matched structure

Electro-Optic Coefficients

γT33 = 32 pm/V, γs33 = 31 pm/V,

γT31 = 10 pm/V, γs31 = 8.6 pm/V,

γT22 = 6.8 pm/V, γs22 = 3.4 pm/V,

Photorefractive Damage Threshold

50 MW/cm2 (10 ns, 1064 nm)

Surface Damage Threshold

300 MW/cm2 (10 ns, 1064 nm)