YVO4 Crystal for Beam Displacer

Yttrium Vanadate (YVO4) is a transparent crystal grown using the Czochralski method.
Due to its excellent physical properties, it is ideal for optical polarization components.
It has a wide transparency range and large birefringence, making it an excellent synthetic alternative to calcite (CaCO3) and rutile (TiO2) crystals in polarization optical components such as fiber optic isolators, circulators, interleavers, and beam displacers.

Basic Properties

YVO4 TiO2 CaCO3 LiNbO3
Thermal Expansion (/℃) c-axis: 11.4 × 10-6
a-axis: 4.4 × 10-6
c-axis: 9.2 × 10-6
a-axis: 7.1 × 10-6
c-axis: 26.3 × 10-6
a-axis: 5.4 × 10-6
c-axis: 16.7 × 10-6
a-axis: 7 × 10-6
Refractive Index no: 1.9447 @ 1550 nm
ne: 2.1486 @ 1550 nm
no: 2.454 @ 1530 nm
ne: 2.710 @ 1530 nm
no: 1.6346 @ 1497 nm
ne: 1.4774 @ 1497 nm
no: 2.2151 @ 1440 nm
ne: 2.1413 @ 1440 nm
Birefringence (ne - no) 0.2039 @ 1550 nm 0.256 @ 1530 nm -0.1572 @ 1497 nm -0.0738 @ 1440 nm
Mohs Hardness 5 6.5 3 5
Deliquescence None None Weak None
Deliquescence None None Weak None
Transparency Range 0.4 - 5 µm 0.4 - 5 µm 0.35 - 2.3 µm 0.4 - 5 µm

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Basic Properties of YVO4 crystal

Transparency Range: High transmittance from 0.4 to 5 µm
Crystal Symmetry: Zircon Tetragonal, space group D4h
Crystal Cell: a = b = 7.12 A; c = 6.29 A
Density: 4.22 g/cm3
Mohs Hardness: 5, glass-like
Hygroscopic Susceptibility: Non-hygroscopic
Thermal Expansion Coefficiet: αa = 4.43 × 10-6/K; αc = 11.37 × 10-6/K
Thermal Conductivity Coefficient: //C:5.23 W/m/K; ⊥C:5.10 W/m/K
Crystal Class: Positive uniaxial with no = na = nb, ne = nc
Thermal Optical Coefficient: dna/dT = 8.5 × 10-6/K; dnc/dT = 3.0 × 10-6/K
Refractive Indices, Birefringence
(△n = ne - no)
and Walk-off Angle at 45°(ρ):
no = 1.9929, ne = 2.2154, △n = 0.2225, ρ = 6.04° at 630 nm
no = 1.9500, ne = 2.1554, △n = 0.2054, ρ = 5.72° at 1300 nm
no = 1.9447, ne = 2.1486, △n = 0.2039, ρ = 5.69° at 1550 nm
Sellmeier Equation (λ in µm): no2 = 3.77834 + 0.069736 / (λ2 - 0.04724) - 0.0108133λ2
ne2 = 4.59905 + 0.110534 / (λ2 - 0.04813) - 0.0122676λ2