Fiber Optical components YVO4

The yttrium orthvanadate (YVO4) is a positive uniaxial crystal grown with Czochralski method. It has good temperature stability and physical and mechanical properties, wide transparency and large birefringence, so it is also ideal for optical compone nts such as fiber optical isolators and circulators, beam displaces and other polarizing optics, etc. YVO4 Crystals Basic Properties Transparency Range Crystal Symmetry Crystal Cell Density: Hygroscopic Susceptibility: Thermal Expansion Coefficient Thermal Conductivity Coefficient Crystal Class: Thermal Optical Coefficient: Refractive Indices: no ne Birefringence (n = ne - no) Walk-off Angle at 45 () Sellmeier Equation ( in m): no2=3.77834 + 0.069736/(2 - 0.04724) - 0.01081332 ne2=4.59905 + 0.110534/(2 - 0.04813) - 0.01226762 Comparation with other Birefringent crystals
YVO4
Thermal Expansion (/Co ) Refractive Index c-axis a-axis no ne 11.4x10-6 4.4x10
-6

high transmittance from 0.4 to 5m Zircon Tetragonal, space group D 4h a=b=7.12; c=6.29 4.22 g/cm3 Non-hygroscopic a = 4.43 x 10-6/K; c = 11.37 x 10-6/K // C: 5.23 W/m/K; C: 5.10 W/m/K Positive uniaxial with no=na=nb, ne=nc dna/dT = 8.5x10-6/K; dnc /dT = 3.0x10-6/K 0.6341 m 1.30 m 1.55 m 1. 9929 1.950 1.9447 2.2154 2.1554 2.1486 0.2225, 0.2054 0.2039 5.72 5.69 6.04 at

TiO2
9.2x10-6 7.1x10-6 2.454@1530nm 2.710@1530nm 0.256@1530nm 6.5 0.4-5m

CaCO3
26.3x10-6 5.4x10-6 1.6346@1497nm 1.4774@1497nm -0.1572@1497nm 3 0.35-2.3m

LiNbO3
16.7x10-6 2x10-6 2.2151@1440nm 2.1413@1440nm -0.0738@440nm) 5 0.4-5m

1.9447@550nm 2.1486@1550nm 0.2039@1550nm 5 0.4-5m

Birefringence (ne-no ) Mohs Hardness Transparency Range

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Applications of YVO4 Crystals
Following drawings are the simple demonstrations of how the YVO4 crystals are used in Fiber Optic Isolator, Beam Displacers, Circulators and interleaver.

Circulator Standard Specifications

Dimension tolerance: 0.05 mm Wedge Angle tolerance:0.1 (wedges) Optical axis orientation: 0.5 Parallelism: <15 arc sec Perpendicularity: <10 arc min Flatness: /4 @ 632.8 nm Surface Quality: 20-10 AR-coating: R<0.2% @1550 30nm

Interleaver

Beam displacers

1. YVO4 Beam Displacer

Part No. YBD0101 YBD0102 YBD0103 Crystal YVO4 YVO4 YVO4 Size 2x2x7mm 2.6x2.6x10mm 2.6x2.6x12mm 45 45 45 0 0 0 d 0.70mm 1.00mm 1.20mm AR@ 1550nm 1550nm 1550nm

2. Birefringent Wedges for Fiber-Optic Isolators

Isolator
Part No.
FRT-YWE0101 FRT-YWE0102

YVO4 Wedges
XL
0.5mm 0.5mm

Crystal
YVO4 YVO4

Y
1.25mm 1.25mm

Z
1.25mm 1.25mm

8 5

22.5 22.5

AR@
1550nm 1550nm

Note: The other special YVO4 crystals are available upon request.

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