4Lasers offer z-cut, cleaved surface and mounted gallium selenide (GaSe) crystals. Custom clear apertures and crystal thicknesses from tens of microns up to several millimeters are available upon request. Due to fragile nature of GaSe it is not possible to apply antireflection coatings.
Main features
Broad transparency range from 0,65 μm to 18 μm
Large nonlinearity and birefringence
Soft and cleaves along [001] plane
Cannot be cut and polished at certain angles
Comes uncoated and mounted for proper handling
Application examples
Broadband mid-IR difference frequency generation
Second harmonic (SH) of CO2, CO, dye lasers
Terahertz (THz) generation by optical rectification
Terahertz detectors for terahertz time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS)