SPIE Photonics West 2012

21-26 January 2012

The Moscone Center,
San Francisco,
California,
USA

Our booth # 1107
(South Hall)

Bonding

Thanks to a co-operation with the Paris Observatory, Cristal Laser has developed a patented (# 9601197000) diffusion-bonding technique allowing to assemble together several optically polished crystals.

This has been a major success with KTP crystals, since the adequate assembly of two crystals allows to considerably reduce the walk-off between and waves and hence to increase the overall conversion efficiency. A good example to this is the use of Walk-Off Compensated (WOC) structures for the parametric generation of a 2µm signal wavelength with a 1064nm pump.

Cristal Laser has also successfully performed diffusion-bonded assemblies of YLF crystals with various dopant concentrations (end-capping).