Crystal for infrared use is often grown using naturally mined fluorite to reduce costs. It will not have the best transmission in the UCalcium Fluoride (CaF2)
base PROPERTIES | PARAMETER | VALUE | OPTICAL | Transmission Range | 0.13 to 10 microns
Refractive Index | 1.39908 at 5 microns
Reflection Loss | 5.4% at 5 microns (2 surfaces) | Restrahlen Peak | 35 microns
dN/dT | -10.6 x 10-6e/°C
PHYSICAL | Density | 3.18 g/cm3
Melting Point | 1360 °C
Thermal Conductivity | 9.71 W/(m*K)
Thermal Expansion | 18.85 x 10-6e/°C
Hardness | Knoop 158.3 kg/mm2 (100)
Specific Heat Capacity | 854J/(kg K)
Dielectric Constant | 6.76 at 1MHz
Young's Modulus (E) | 75.8 GPa
Shear Modulus (G) | 33.77 GPa
Bulk Modulus (K) | 82.71 GPa
Elastic Coefficients | C11=164 MPa, C12=53 MPa, C44=33.7 MPa
Apparent Elastic Limit | 36.54 MPa
Poisson Ratio | 0.26
CHEMICAL | Solubility | 0.0017g/100g water at 20 °C
Molecular Weight | 78.08
Class/Structure | Cubic (111) cleavage
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00nm due toCalcium Fluoride Applications
Hellma Materials CaF2 is the foremost optical material encompassing a broad spectrum of applications:
IR opticsOptics for astronomical instrumentationMicroscope opticsSpectroscopy opticsUV opticsLaser windowsExcimer Laser OpticsMicrolithography Optics impurities.
Crystal for infrared use is often grown using naturally mined fluorite to reduce costs. It will not have the best transmission in the UV or VUV and can have absorption bands at 300nm due to impurities.