Anti-Gray Tracking KTP Crystal
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Regular KTP Crystal
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KTP crystal has promising E-O
and dielectric properties comparable to those of LiNbO3, which makes it
extremely useful to various E-O devices. The following table compares KTP
with other commonly used E-O modulator materials:
Material |
|
Phase |
Amplitude |
|
e |
n |
r
pm/V |
k 10-6/�C |
n7r2/e(pm/V)2 |
r
pm/V |
k 10-6/�C |
n7r2/e(pm/V)2 |
KTP |
15.4 |
1.80 |
35.0 |
31 |
6130 |
27.0 |
11.7 |
3650 |
LiNbO3 |
27.9 |
2.20 |
31.0 |
82 |
7410 |
20.1 |
42 |
3500 |
KD*P |
48.0 |
1.47 |
26.4 |
9 |
178 |
24.0 |
8 |
178 |
LiIO3 |
5.9 |
1.47 |
6.4 |
24 |
335 |
1.2 |
15 |
124 |
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Combined these properties with high damage threshold, low optical loss at high average power, wide optical
bandwidth, thermal and mechanical stability, KTP are expected to
replace LiNbO3 crystals as E-O modulators. Especially for mode-locking diode
laser pumped Nd:YAG and Nd:YLF lasers as well as Ti:Sapphire and Cr:LiSrAlF6
lasers, KTP is the the crystal of choice. KTP was successfully used to mode lock a diode laser pumped
Nd:YLF laser at 270 MHz with pulse width of 15 ps and spectral bandwidth of 73
GHz.
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