Lithium niobate crystal is important optoelectronic materials, is in the field of integrated optics, nonlinear optics, optoelectronic components, such as the most widely used, the most important substrate material.
Lithium niobate (LiNbO3) crystal is a set of electro-optical, acousto-optical, piezoelectric, photoelastic, nonlinear, and laser photorefractive effect in one activity, such as synthetic crystals, coupled with its stable mechanical properties, ease of processing, high temperature, corrosion, rich sources of raw materials, low cost, easy to grow crystals of the advantages of NCKU, especially after the implementation of the different doping can exhibit a variety of special properties, is by far the maximum performance photonics people found the best crystal composite indicator, is expected to be similar to silicon and silicon electronics, optical materials, has a very broad market prospects.
Currently, lithium niobate crystal is widely used in surface acoustic wave, electro-optic modulator, laser modulation Q, optical gyroscopes, optical parametric oscillation, optical parametric amplification, optical holographic storage devices, these devices are mobile phones, televisions, optical communications, laser ranging, and the electric field detectors and other military technology plays an important role.