WE DELIVER THE BEST PERFORMING LBOS
From the Heart of the Silicon Valley
GAMDAN Optics Inc., U.S. manufacturer of custom-made nonlinear optical crystals for applications requiring the highest LIDT and lifetime. CONTACT US today to inquire about our In-Stock LBO with quick turn around time and purchase USA made Lithium Triborate (LBO) Crystals.
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GAMDAN OPTICS PROVIDES THE HIGHEST PERFORMING NONLINEAR CRYSTALS, Period.
PRECISION CRYSTAL MANUFACTURING SPECIALIZING IN LBO, BBO, KTP & YV04
With several decades of technical expertise in crystal growth and precision optical fabrication, complemented with our collaborative development relationships with premier research institutions and 1st and 2nd tier OEMs across the world, we have created products that have consistently extended the operational lifetime of high-power laser systems in the CW (continuous wave), nanosecond, picosecond, and femtosecond regime.
LBO
Power, Stability, Lifetime
LBO (Lithium Triborate, LiB3O5) is one of the most useful nonlinear optical materials not just for its relatively large conversion coefficient (3x that of KDP), but also for its excellent physical properties. Through our continuous improvement process, GAMDAN Optics ensures our LBO has the best durability, damage threshold, and absorption on the market. (Request more information on your quality system)
BBO
BBO (Beta-Barium Borate) (β-BaB2O4) is a versatile nonlinear optical crystal with a combination of a number of unique features: wide transparency region, broad phase-matching range, large nonlinear coefficient and high damage threshold.
BBO is one of the few practical crystals for use below 500 nm in Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) and Sum Frequency Mixing (SFM). BBO can be uses with CW light, nanosecond pulses or ultra fast pulses. It can produce output SHG for SFM light in the ultraviolet down to 190nm.
BBO is used for high rep rate, high power Q-switching applications in which the length along the z-axis is critical. (Contact us for your applications requiring >20mm length)
KTP
GAMDAN Optics offers KTP crystals (Potassium Titanyl Phosphate, KTiOPO4) that are hydrothermally as well as flux-grown. Both of these varieties offer a low absorption rate (especially hydrothermally grown), excellent homogeneity, high mechanical stability, and a UV grade super polish, with minimum roughness, for an optimal high-power performance. They also boast of a high damage threshold and a wide optical bandwidth.
From high energy long pulsed medical lasers to high average power nanosecond commercial lasers, wherever GTR-KTP (Gray Tracking Resistant Potassium Titanyl Phosphate) is needed, our hydrothermally grown KTP crystals outperform all competition. In fact, customers report lower system maintenance and more than 2x uptime since switching to our KTP. (Contact us for absorption and damage threshold data on our KTP)
ABOUT US
At the core of our company is a group of highly qualified and dedicated material scientists, engineers and production personnel laser-focused on producing the lowest absorbing crystals with the most damage resistant optical surfaces for the most critical applications.
As a result, we have achieved record setting UV LiDT with the super-polished surfaces of our LBO crystals and exceptional UV lifetime in a variety of industrial and medical applications. (CONTACT US FOR THE DATA) Our hydrothermally grown KTP crystals have consistently achieved unparalleled uptime in medical and aerospace applications.
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GAMDAN Optics LBO Crystal
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OPTICAL CRYSTAL FABRICATION OFFERED
From our facility in San Jose, CA, we provide custom optical fabrication services for a variety of critical single crystalline materials. Click below to learn more about the specific services GAMDAN Optics offers. (Contact us to discuss your requirements)
“We have been very impressed with the LBO from Gamdan. The material quality and lifetime testing we have done on the crystals have exceeded our expectations”
If you’re looking for a US based nonlinear optical crystal company that’s earned a strong track record of success and an ever-growing list of loyal customers, contact us today to learn more about what we can do for you. We serve several industries including industrial fabrication, medical lasers, aerospace and defense industry. We look forward to hearing from you and putting a plan of action together as partners.
GAMDAN Optics is pleased to announce its participation in SPIE Optifab 2025, the premier optical fabrication event in North America. The exhibition will take place October 21–23, 2025, at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center, with the technical program running October 20–23, 2025.