Sapphire Prisms
Exceptional Hardness and Durability: Sapphire has a Mohs hardness of 9, second only to diamond, making it highly resistant to scratches, abrasions, and wear. This durability ensures long-lasting performance in demanding environments.
High Thermal Conductivity: Sapphire exhibits excellent thermal conductivity, allowing it to dissipate heat efficiently. This is crucial in high-power laser applications and other environments where temperature control is essential.
Chemical Stability: Sapphire is resistant to common acids and alkalis, ensuring its stability in corrosive atmospheres and harsh chemical environments.
Broad Transmittance Range: Sapphire has good transmittance from the ultraviolet (UV) to the mid-wave infrared (MWIR) wavelength range (approximately 0.15 to 5.5 μm), making it suitable for a wide variety of optical applications.
Compact Size: Due to its superior structural strength, sapphire prisms can be fabricated into more compact sizes compared to those made of other materials, facilitating integration into compact systems.
Applications: Laser Technology, Optical Instrumentation, Aerospace and Defense, Industrial Processing, Medical Devices, etc.
Sapphire prisms are optical elements crafted from single crystal alumina (Al2O3). They feature flat, polished surfaces that refract or reflect light, enabling their use in applications requiring precise control of light beams and images. Sapphire’s exceptional physical and chemical properties, including high hardness, thermal conductivity, and chemical stability, make it an ideal material for demanding optical applications across various industries. With their broad transmittance range and compact size, sapphire prisms are versatile tools that contribute significantly to advancing technology and scientific research.
Specifications:
| Shapes | Right angle prisms, 60° equiliateral dispersing prism, customized prisms |
| Dimension Tolerance | +0.0/-0.2mm |
| Aperture | >90% |
| Surface Quality | 40/20 S/D |
| Thickness Tolerance | +/-0.2mm |
| Materials | Optical grade single crystal sapphire |
| Flatness | 1Lambda@633nm |
Features:
- Exceptional Hardness and Durability: Sapphire has a Mohs hardness of 9, second only to diamond, making it highly resistant to scratches, abrasions, and wear. This durability ensures long-lasting performance in demanding environments.
- High Thermal Conductivity: Sapphire exhibits excellent thermal conductivity, allowing it to dissipate heat efficiently. This is crucial in high-power laser applications and other environments where temperature control is essential.
- Chemical Stability: Sapphire is resistant to common acids and alkalis, ensuring its stability in corrosive atmospheres and harsh chemical environments.
- Broad Transmittance Range: Sapphire has good transmittance from the ultraviolet (UV) to the mid-wave infrared (MWIR) wavelength range (approximately 0.15 to 5.5 μm), making it suitable for a wide variety of optical applications.
- Compact Size: Due to its superior structural strength, sapphire prisms can be fabricated into more compact sizes compared to those made of other materials, facilitating integration into compact systems.
Applications：
- Laser Technology: Sapphire’s high thermal conductivity and durability make it ideal for use in high-power lasers and laser systems.
- Optical Instrumentation: Sapphire prisms are employed in precision optical instruments such as spectrometers, interferometers, and other scientific equipment.
- Aerospace and Defense: Sapphire’s resistance to extreme temperatures and harsh environments makes it suitable for use in aerospace and defense systems, including night vision equipment, infrared sensors, and high-altitude optics.
- Industrial Processing: Sapphire prisms are utilized in industrial processes that require high-temperature or corrosive environments, such as high-vacuum systems and semiconductor manufacturing.
- Medical Devices: Sapphire’s biocompatibility and transparency make it a suitable material for use in medical devices, such as endoscopes and surgical lasers.
Kingwin Optics offers a range of high-quality optical prisms that are transparent elements with flat, polished surfaces that can refract or reflect light. These prisms can be used for beam deviation and adjusting the orientation of an image. Single crystal sapphire (Al2O3) prisms are particularly suitable for demanding contexts such as lasers and extreme conditions due to their exceptional surface hardness, high thermal conduction, resistance to scratch and abrasions, and resistance to common acids and alkalis. Sapphire prisms are also structurally strong and can be fabricated into compact sizes, making them ideal for use in a variety of applications. Additionally, sapphire has good transmittance across the UV to MWIR wavelength range. Kingwin Optics provides customized prisms in various shapes, including right angle prisms, 60° equilateral dispersing prisms, and other custom shapes such as dove prisms, Penta prisms, roof prisms, and rhomboid prisms.
