Niobate crystal has excellent electro-optic, acousto-optic, piezoelectric, nonlinear and other properties. It is widely used in the civil area.

Lithium niobate crystal is an important multifunctional crystal with good nonlinear optical properties and large nonlinear optical coefficient. Moreover, non-critical phase matching can be realized. As an electro-optical crystal, it has been used as an important optical waveguide material. As a piezoelectric crystal, it can be used in the production of low frequency SAW filters, high power high temperature resistant ultrasonic transducers and so on. Doped lithium niobate materials are also widely used. Mg:LN can greatly improve the anti-laser damage threshold, and promote the application of lithium niobate crystals in the field of nonlinear optics. Nd:Mg:LN crystal, can achieve self-doubling effect; Fe:LN crystals can be used for holographic storage in optical volumes.

LiNbO3Crystals is widely used as frequency doublers for wavelength > 1um and optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) pumped at 1064 nm as well as quasi-phase-matched (QPM) devices. Due to its large Elector-Optic (E-O) and Acousto-Optic (A-O) coefficients, LiNbO₃ crystal is the most commonly used material for Pockel Cells, Q-switches and phase modulators, waveguide substrate, and surface acoustic wave (SAW) wafers, etc.

Applications
Integrated Waveguide Photonics
Wave Guide Lasers
Polarizer for Optic Isolator
EO Waveguide Phase Modulators
EO Waveguide Amplitude Modulators

Quasi-phase Matching for SHG and OPO

Basic Information

Surface Acoustic Properties