Low latency barium fluoride (BaF₂) is a high-performance optical material designed for rapid signal transmission, minimal optical delay, and superior ultraviolet and infrared transparency. Manufactured from high-purity BaF₂, it offers excellent thermal stability, strong resistance to environmental degradation, and enhanced scintillation properties. This advanced material is widely used in laser systems, spectroscopy, aerospace applications, and high-speed optical detection, ensuring precise light transmission and efficient optical performance for demanding applications.
Product Overview:
Low Latency Barium Fluoride is a material with exceptional optical properties, particularly in terms of phase delay. Due to its relatively low refractive index, it reduces light reflection and scattering, enhancing the transmission efficiency of optical systems. Its low latency characteristic makes it particularly suitable for high-performance optical systems that require precise signal monitoring. Additionally, low latency BaF₂ has a low thermal expansion coefficient, ensuring stability under various environmental conditions, which guarantees the reliability of optical systems.
Key Features:
- Low Phase Delay:The material exhibits low phase delay characteristics, reducing signal delay in high-precision optical monitoring systems, ensuring accurate signal transmission.
- High Transparency:It has high transmission rates, making it ideal for optical applications over a broad range of wavelengths.
- Low Refractive Index:By minimizing light reflection and scattering, it improves the transmission efficiency of optical systems.
- Chemical Stability:Features high chemical stability and a low thermal expansion coefficient, making it suitable for applications in extreme environmental conditions.
Applications:
- Optical Instruments:Widely used in the manufacture of high-precision optical instruments, such as telescopes and other optical devices.
- Optical Communication:Used in optical communication systems for signal transmission, reducing signal distortion and enhancing system efficiency.
- Laser Technology:As a core material in laser systems, it is applied in lasers and other optical systems for improved performance.
- High-Performance Optical Systems:Ideal for applications that require extremely low optical signal phase delay, such as precision optical sensors, measurement systems, and other critical applications where signal accuracy is crucial.
Optical Property | Value |
Transmission Range | 0.15-14 μm |
Transmittance | >94%@0.35nm-10.8μm |
Refractive Index | 1.462@2.58μm, 1.45@5μm |
Reflection Loss | 6.8%@2.58μm (both surfaces) |
6.5%@5μm (both surfaces) | |
5.3%@10.35μm (both surfaces) | |
Absorption Coefficient | 3.2×10⁻⁴@6μm |
Structure | Cubic Crystal System |
Cleavage Planes | <111 |
Physical Property | Value |
Density | 4.89 g/cm³ |
Melting Point | 1386 ℃ |
Thermal Conductivity | 11.72 W/(m·K) @ 286K |
Thermal Expansion | 18.1×10⁻⁶/K @ 273K |
Knoop Hardness | 82 kg/mm² |
Specific Heat Capacity | 410 J/(kg·K) |
Dielectric Constant | 7.33 @ 1 MHz |
Young's Modulus | 53.07 GPa |
Shear Modulus | 25.4 GPa |
Bulk Modulus | 56.4 GPa |
Poisson's Coefficient | 0.343 |
Chemical Property | Value |
Solubility | 1.7 g/L @ 20℃ |
Molecular Weight | 175.3238 g/mol |
Property | Value |
Material Name | Low Delayed BaF₂ |
Available Size | 3-300mm |
Material Grade | Low Delayed |
Transmittance Range | 0.15-14μm |
Crystal Structure | Monocrystalline, Polycrystalline |
Orientation | <111>, <100>, <200> |
Blank Shape | Round, rectangular, wedge, lens, step drilled, special-shaped |