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3 The main application of lithium tantalate crystal3.3 E-O Q-SwitchThe basis of laser Q-switched technology is a special optical component - a fast intracavity optical switch generally called Q-switch. The Q value is an indicator for evaluating the quality of the optical resonant cavity. The higher the Q value, the lower the required pump threshold and the easier it is for the laser to oscillate. The purpose of laser Q-switching technology is to compress the pulse width and increase the peak power.

In 1962, the American scientist McClung F J reported for the first time that the silver mirror of the ruby laser resonator had hole burning damage, which was the first public report on the laser damage of optical components. The subsequent invention of Q-switching technology and mode-locking technology increased the peak power of laser pulses by several orders of magnitude. The problem of laser damage runs through and affects the design and operation of lasers, and promotes the development of optical materials and optical component manufacturing technologies.

IntroductionLithium tantalate (LiTaO3, referred to as LT), as an excellent multifunctional crystal material, has good piezoelectric, electro-optical and pyroelectric properties, and is ideal for making surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters, resonators, tuners, Q switches and pyroelectric detectors. Devices made from LT crystal (www.wisoptic.com) are widely used in the automotive electronics, 5G communications and infrared detectors, and have broad market prospects.In 1965, Ballman used the pulling method to grow LT single crystal for the first time.

2. Fabrication of Lithium Tantalate Crystal2.1 Fabrication of same composition lithium tantalate crystalThe same composition Lithium tantalate (CLT) crystals are often fabricated by mixing high-purity tantalum pentoxide with high-purity lithium carbonate at a stoichiometric ratio of 0.95:1 (molar ratio), and are prepared by the crucible pulling method. The quality of LiTaO3 crystal (www.wisoptic.com) is generally affected by factors such as raw material ratio, pulling speed, seed crystal quality, crucible shape and type.

2. Theoretical analysis2.2 Design of CPPLN crystal structureIn order to achieve better temperature robustness and higher frequency doubling efficiency on the same CPPLN crystal, we designed the crystal structure of CPPLN. The schematic diagram of CPPLN for frequency doubling from 1064nm to 532nm is shown in Figure 1. The incident beam with fundamental frequency is set to be e-light, that is, its polarization direction is horizontal. At the same time, the output beam is also set to be e-light.

4. Experimental Result and Analysis4.2 Temperature robustness comparison between CPPLN and LBOAs a relatively new nonlinear optical material, CPPLN has a high nonlinear coefficient and a large gain bandwidth. In the foreseeable future, it will have more applications in the fields of industry and medicine. With the increasing demand for polarized crystal materials such as PPLN and CPPLN, the electric field polarization technology of crystals will also have further breakthroughs, and the processing accuracy of polarized crystals will continue to improve.

3 The main application of lithium tantalate crystal3.1 SAW Wave filterPeng et al. used ion etching to process lithium tantalate (LT) crystals to obtain a high fundamental frequency crystal resonator. They used this crystal resonator to design a high-frequency broadband filter, which improved the operating frequency and reliability of the filter and increased the number of The bandwidth of the filter ensures the high temperature stability and low insertion loss of the filter.

1.3 Doping of Lithium Tantalate CrystalDifferent fields have different requirements for the properties of lithium tantalate crystals. When being used to prepare high-density and large-capacity holographic information storage devices, LiTaO3 crystals need to have excellent photorefractive properties. Due to the particularity of the crystal structure of LiTaO3, its physical properties can be adjusted through doping, for example, the widely used photorefractive doping.

It’s well known that the DKDP crystal is very easy to be damaged by humidity, especially in  environment with high temperature. So ordinary DKDP Pockels cells can not be used in high temperature and high humidity environment, or their service life is very short. After more than two years of continuous technical research, WISOPTIC has successfully developed DKDP Pockels cells that can be used in lasers working in high temperature and high humidity environments.

As the source manufacturer of many kinds of function crystals and the leading producer of DKDP Pockels cell in China, WISOPTIC provides high cost-effective products to its customers worldwide and gains substantial trust from all of its business partners. Every year over 40% of WISOPTIC's products are exported to Europe, UK, North America, Korea, Israel, etc.Normally WISOPTIC takes parts in at least one of the important exhibitions in the industry of photonics and laser, such as Laser World of Photonics (Munich/Shanghai), SPIE Photonics West (San Francisco), KIMES (Seoul), PHOTONIX (To