• Optical-grade single-crystal quartz exhibits excellent optical and electrical properties. It features extremely high purity and low impurity levels, with significantly reduced concentrations of Al, Na, Ca, Fe and Li.
• Optical-grade single-crystal quartz offers many advantages, including ultra-high purity, high laser damage resistance (maintaining high transmittance even in the vacuum ultraviolet region), non-fluorescence, radiation resistance, and capability for large-size growth. These characteristics make optical-grade crystalline quartz particularly suitable for demanding optical applications, such as quartz waveplates, polarizers, prisms, various window materials, vacuum ultraviolet laser crystals, components used in radiation environments, ArF excimer laser optical elements, and UV spectrometer prisms.
• This optical-grade synthetic quartz features a Q-factor as high as 3.5 to 3.8 million, with no inclusions, etch channel density (ECD) or defects. It is the material of choice for high-precision optical and electronic components, used in the manufacture of ultra-stable, low-noise resonators/oscillators, SAW sensors, inertial navigation systems (accelerometers, gyroscopes), and other devices.