29 Oct 2009 The yttrium orthovanadate (YVO4) is a positive uniaxial crystal grown with Czochralski method. The yttrium orthovanadate (YVO4) is a positive uniaxial crystal grown with Czochralski method. It has good mechanical and physical properties and is ideal for optical polarizing components because of its wide transparency range and large birefringence. It is an excellent synthetic substitute for Calcite (CaCO3) and Rutile (TiO2) crystals in many applications including fiber optic isolators and circulators, beam displacers, Glan polarizers and other polarizing optics, etc.
when the light passes through such crystals, the transmission features will be different due to the different polarizability of incidence light and the birefringence phenomenon may occur. |
