KTA is an excellent nonlinear optical crystal for OPO application, OPO devices based on KTA are reliable, solid state sources of tunable laser radiation exhibiting energy conversion efficiencies above 50%, in addition, KTA has a very high damage threshold and lower absorption in the 3-4 µm spectrum range than KTP.

Advantages:

Large nonlinear optical and electro-optical coefficient

Wide angular bandwidth and small walk-off angle

Temperature and spectral bandwidth

Low dielectric constant, loss tangent and ionic conductivities

High damage threshold

Highly resistant to high intensity laser radiation

Applications:

An excellent NLO crystal developed mainly for Optical Parametric Oscillation

Freqency Doubling (SHG@1083nm~3789nm)

Sum and Difference Frequency Generation

Electro-Optical Q-Switch and modulation for optical waveguides

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