Calcite – CaCO3

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Calcite

Calcite is a negative uniaxial crystal with high birefringence.  It is usually mined and cuts and polishes well. It is a negative uniaxial crystals and is usually used for visible and near IR polarizers. Calcite offers a wide range of spectral transmission making it prefect for precision optics. Calcite is perfect for manufacture of polarizers used in visible-IR range. These include Glan-Taylor polarizers, Glan-Thompson polarizers and Glan laser polarizers. Calcite plates/blocks are now routinely used for time delay compensation between two orthogonally polarized ultrafast pulses.

 

Transmission Range 0.3 – 5.5 µ
Crystal Structure Sodium Nitrate
Cleavage Plane 1011
Colour Colourless
Density 2.7102 (20°)
Melting Point (°) 1339 (under 102.5 atmosphere pressure) Decomposes at 894.4°C
Reflection Loss 10.6% (2µ) for 2 surfaces
Solubility index 1.0×10-3/100gm / 8.7°C
Hardness (Knoop) 3.0 (Moh)
Thermal Conductivity (cal/cm sec°C) 1.32×10-2 (Parallel to C axis)
1.11×10-2 (Vertical to C axis)
Thermal Expansion coefficient (/°C) 25×10-6 (Parallel to C axis)
-5.8×10-6 (Vertical to C axis)

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