Yttrium aluminium oxide YAlO3 (YAP) is an attractive laser host for erbium ions due to its natural birefringence combined with good thermal and mechanical properties similar to those of YAG.
Er:YAP crystals with high doping concentration of Er3+ ions are typically used for lasing at 2,73 microns.
Low-doped Er:YAP laser crystals are used for of the eye-safe radiation at 1,66 microns by in-band pumping with semiconductor laser diodes at 1,5 microns. The advantage of such a scheme is low thermal...
High-quality crystals of BGSe (BaGa4Se7) is the selenide analogue of the chalcogenide compound BaGa4S7, whose acentric orthorhombic structure was identified in 1983 and the IR NLO effect was reported in 2009, is a newly developed IR NLO crystal. It was obtained via the Bridgman–Stockbarger technique. This crystal exhibits high transmittance over the wide range of 0.47–18 μm, except for an absorption peak at around 15 μm.
The FWHM of the (002) peak rocking curve is about 0.008° and the transmi...
Rochon Prisms split an arbitrarily polarized input beam into two orthogonally polarized output beams. The ordinary ray remains on the same optical axis as the input beam, while the extraordinary ray deviates by an angle, which depends on the wavelength of the light and the material of the prism (see the Beam Deviation graphs in the table to the right). The output beams have a high polarization extinction ratio of >10 000:1 for the MgF2 prism and >100 000:1 for the a-BBO prism.
Feature:...
Glan Taylor polarizer is made of two same birefringent material prisms that are assembled with an air space.Its length to aperture ratio which is less than 1.0 makes it a relatively thin polarizer.The polarizer with no side escape windows is suitable for low to medium power application where the side rejected beams are not required .The angular field of different materials of polarizers is listed below for comparison.
Feature:
Air-spaced
Close to Brewster’s Angle Cutting
High Polariza...
High-quality crystals of BGSe (BaGa4Se7) is the selenide analogue of the chalcogenide compound BaGa4S7, whose acentric orthorhombic structure was identified in 1983 and the IR NLO effect was reported in 2009, is a newly developed IR NLO crystal. It was obtained via the Bridgman–Stockbarger technique. This crystal exhibits high transmittance over the wide range of 0.47–18 μm, except for an absorption peak at around 15 μm.
The FWHM of the (002) peak rocking curve is about 0.008° and the transmi...
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 crsytal, Yb:YAG crystal has a much larger absorption bandwidth to reduce thermal management requirements for diode lasers, a longer upper-laser level lifetime, three to four times lower thermal loading per unit pump power. Yb:YAG crystal is expected to replace Nd:YAG crystal for high power diode-pumped lasers and other pot...