HC Photonics

HC Photonics (HCP) provides crystal ovens and controllers to well manage the temperature of nonlinear crystals, especially PPLN and PPLT. The operating range is from room temperature up to 200 °C, which enables a wide wavelength tuning range.

HC Photonics (HCP) offers both commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom PPMgO:LN or PPMgO:LT based frequency doubling devices for wavelength ranging from 710 nm to 5000 nm.

The product mix includes bare crystals (bulk and waveguide) and plug-and-play fibered mixers. Key features:

• >200 kinds of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) crystals with oven/holder for shipping today
• wavelength range: 710–5000 nm (355–2500 nm output after doubling)
• fibered mixer is single-pass, high-efficiency and optimized for specified input pumps
• available for fiber or free space as input/output coupling interfaces (such as 1×0, 1×1 or 0×0; 0 = free space, 1 = one fiber)
• >2W CW 780 nm 1×1 fibered waveguide mixer is an excellent device for quantum application
• >4 W visible 1x0 fibered bulk mixer is a robust, compact and easy-to-use device for biophotonics, metrology and quantum applications

HC Photonics (HCP) offers both commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom PPMgO:LN or PPMgO:LT based frequency quadrupling devices for pump wavelength ranging from 1420 nm to 5000 nm.

The product mix includes bare crystals and plug-and-play fibered mixers with either one cascaded design or two-stage conversion configurations.

A typical reference spec is the 488 nm fibered mixer converted from 1952 nm fiber laser.

Please contact us for solutions to meet your specific demands.

HC Photonics (HCP) offers both commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom PPMgO:LN or PPMgO:LT based frequency tripling devices for input wavelength ranging from 1064 nm to 5000 nm.

The product mix includes bare crystals and plug-and-play fibered mixers. A typical reference spec is >30 mW at 355 nm from a fibered mixer requiring only 2.5 W cw pump at 1064 nm. Please contact us for solutions to meet your specific demands.

HC Photonics (HCP) provides various unique IR sensing cards (laser viewing cards) laminated with PVC for a long lifetime. Tailored cards with your own company logos and designs are also welcome. High power versions are available upon request.

HC Photonics (HCP) provides various high efficiency nonlinear crystals to enable full-spectrum applications, including periodically poled lithium niobate (pp-LiNbO₃, PPLN) and periodically poled lithium tantalate (LiTaO₃)/PPLT.

Features and service:

• more than 250 commercial off-the-shelf PPMgO:LN bulk crystals for wavelength conversions: QPM pattern: single, multiple, and fan-out; configuration: SHG, SFG, DFG, OPG, OPO, OPA; wavelength range: UV (355 nm) to mid-infrared (5000 nm)
• custom-made solutions: QPM period: 2–1000 μm; QPM pattern: single, multiple, fan-out, chirped, cascade, 2D; dimension: length 0.3–80 mm, width 0.1–40 mm, thickness 0.2–5 mm); configuration: SHG, SFG, DFG, OPG, OPO, OPA, THG, SHG+SFG; wavelength range: UV (355 nm) to mid-infrared (5000 nm) and THz; material: PPMgO:LN or PPMgO:LT
• PPLN waveguides: excellent performance, i.e. >50% overall efficiency. Fibered module generating >2 W at 780 nm (1560 nm SHG) is off-the-shelf. Crystals for other wavelengths are also available or can be designed upon request.

HC Photonics (HCP) offers a wide range of solutions for optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) including commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom PPMgO:LN based devices.

PPLN bare crystals are excellent devices (i.e. >90% conversion efficiency) for all-kind pumped OPOs i.e. cw, ns, fs and ps.

PPLN cavity mixers such as IC-OPOs have options of either fixed or broadly tunable wavelengths between 1420 nm and 4100 nm. They are the most compact and easy-to-use OPO devices in the market.

HC Photonics (HCP) provides various high efficiency nonlinear crystals to enable full-spectrum applications, including periodically poled lithium niobate (LiNbO₃)/PPLN and periodically poled lithium tantalate (LiTaO₃)/PPLT.

Features and service:

• More than 250 commercial off-the-shelf PPMgO:LN bulk crystals for wavelength conversions: QPM pattern: single, multiple, and fan-out; configuration: SHG, SFG, DFG, OPG, OPO, OPA; wavelength range: UV (355 nm) to mid-infrared (5000 nm)
• Custom-made solutions: QPM period: 2–1000 microns; QPM pattern: single, multiple, fan-out, chirped, cascade, 2D; dimension: length 0.3–80 mm, width 0.1–40 mm, thickness 0.2–5 mm); configuration: SHG, SFG, DFG, OPG, OPO, OPA, THG, SHG+SFG; wavelength range: UV (355 nm) to mid-infrared (5000 nm) and THz; material: PPMgO:LN or PPMgO:LT
• PPLN waveguides: excellent performance, i.e. >50% overall efficiency. Fibered module >2 W at 780 nm (≈1560 nm SHG) is off-the-shelf. Other wavelengths are also available or could be designed upon request.

HC Photonics (HCP) offers both commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom PPMgO:LN or PPMgO:LT based sum and difference frequency generators (SFG & DFG) for out wavelengths ranging from 355 nm to 5000 nm. The product family includes bare crystals (bulk and waveguide) and plug-and-play fibered mixers.

A reference spec is >2 W at 632 nm from a fibered mixer converting the output of 1064-nm and 1560-nm fiber lasers.

Key features:

• >200 kinds of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) crystals with oven/holder for shipping today
• output wavelength range: 355–5000 nm
• fibered mixer is single-pass, high-efficiency and optimized for specified input pumps
• available for fiber or free space as input/output coupling interfaces (such as 2×0, 2×1, 1+0×0, 0+0×0; 0 = free space, 1 = one fiber)

HC Photonics (HCP) provides high conversion efficiency PPLN waveguides (periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides) to enable full-spectrum applications (i.e. single photon or Solc filter modulator) available for up-conversion (SHG/SFG) and down-conversion (DFG/OPA/OPG) frequency mixing configurations.

Two types of the waveguide are available to fulfill different applications. One is a proton-exchanged waveguide (up to 50 mm long) and the other one is ridge waveguide for high power handling (i.e. >2 W at 780 nm output). Tailored waveguides are available based on specific demands.