Product novelty 29. June 2020

Periodically-poled Lithium Niobate (PPLN) crystals provide a high non-linear gain and thus allow for highest conversion efficiencies even for smallest input powers. For an easy-to-use application we offer PPLN crystals in a convenient, compact, robust and cost-effective packaged format: The PPLN mixers. Besides being plug & play devices, the mixers are widely customizable in wavelength and available in free-space or fiber-coupled configurations. With integrated waveguide technology, the PPLN mixers provide highest efficiency in single-pass conversion e. g. more than 1 W at 780 nm can be extracted from only 3.8 W of pump power at 1560 nm in cw operation. This makes the PPLN mixers highly interesting especially for applications in quantum optics.

PPLN Mixer Benefits:
• Plug & Play, alignment-free
• Free-space or fiber-coupled
• Single pass & high-efficiency
• Compact and robust
• Various conversion configurations
• Available for a variety of application customizations