Ti2O3 concentration 0.06-0.26 at.%.
Right-angle cut or Brewster cut is available.
The tunable wavelengths that cover a broad range from 700 to 1000 nm make Ti:Sapphire an excellent substitute for dye lasers in many applications.
Doubling by NLO crystals such as BBO in an ultra-thin, Ti:Sapphire can be used to generate UV and DUV (up to 193 nm ) laser with ultrafast pulses below 10fs.
Ti:Sapphire is also widely used as the pump source of OPOs to expand the tunable range.
Titanium doped Sapphire (Ti:Sapphire) is the most widely used laser crystal for widely tunable and ultrashort pulsed lasers with high gain and high power outputs. The Ti:Sapphire crystals of Crysmit is grown by the method of Temperature Gradient Technique (TGT), the large-sized (Dia.30x 30mm) Ti:Sapphire crystal in high quality free of light scatter, with the dislocation density less than 102cm-2 could be provided. The TGT grown sapphire crystal is characterized by the (0001) oriented growth, high doping level (a490= 4.0cm-1), high gain and laser damage threshold.
Basic Properties
| Chemical Formula | Ti3+: Al2O3 |
| Crystal Structure | Hexagonal |
| Lattice Parameter | a = 4.758 Å, c = 12.991 Å |
| Density | 3.98 g/cm3 |
| Melting Point | 2040 ℃ |
| Mohs Hardness | 9 |
| Thermal Conductivity | 52 W/m/k |
| Specific Heat | 0.42 J/g/K |
| Laser Action | 4-level Vibronic |
| Fluorescence Lifetime | 3.2 μs (T = 300K) |
| Tuning Range | 660-1050 nm |
| Absorption Range | 400-600 nm |
| Emission Peak | 795 nm |
| Absorption Peak | 488 nm |
| Refractive Index | 1.76 @800 nm |
| Peak Cross-section | 3~4 × 10-19 cm2 |
| Thermal Expansion | 8.40 × 10-6 /℃ |
| Orientation | Optical axis C normal to rod axis |
| Ti2O3 concentration | 0.06-0.26 at.% |
| Figure Of Merit (FOM) | 100~250 |
| α490 | 1.0-4.0 cm-1 |
| Diameter | 2~30 mm or specified |
| Path Length | 2~30 mm or specified |
| End Configurations | Flat/Flat Brewster/Brewster ends |
| Surface Quality | 20/10 to MIL-PRF-13830B |
| Flatness | ＜λ/8@633nm |
| Wavefront Distortion | ＜λ/4@633 nm |
| Parallelism | ＜20 arc sec |
| Perpendicularity | ＜15 arc min |
