Optics

Lithium Niobate Wafers

Use Lithium Niobate's unique combination of high refractive index and visible and infrared transmission to makes waveguides, modulators, and sensors on our wafers.

Lithium niobate is a multifunctional material with high chemical and heat stability. Its high refractive index (>2.3) compared with glass (1.5) enables a large field-of-view when fabricated in wafer form for waveguide design.

Lithium Niobate Wafer

Depend on Coherent, with over a decade of experience in Lithium Niobate wafer manufacturing, to provide wafers that meet your exact requirements.

Material Specifications

Material

Congruent: LiNbO3

Material quality

Bubble or inclusion <100 μm

Qty <8, 30 μm < bubble size < 100 μm

Orientation

Y cut ±0.2°

Density

4.65 g/cm3

Curie temperature

1142 ±1℃

Transparency

>95% for 10 mm thickness over 450 - 700 nm

Fabrication Specifications

Diameter

150 mm ± 0.2 mm

Thickness

350 μm ± 10 μm

Flatness  

Total thickness variation(TTV) 

Local thickness variation (LTV) 

Bow 

Roughness

<1.3 μm

Warp < 70 μm @ 150 mm wafer

<70 μm @ 150 mm wafer

Rq ≤0.5 nm (RMS value by AFM)

Surface quality

40-20

Particles

Non-removable particles: 

100-200 μm ≤3 particles,

20-100 μm ≤20 particles

Chip

<300 μm (full wafer, without exclusion zone)

Crack

No crack (full wafer)

Contamination

No non-removable stain (full wafer)

Parallelism

<30 arc second

Orientation refer flat (x-axis)

47 ±2 mm