Electro-Optic Modulator Selection Guide

At New Focus™, you'll find a wide variety of high performance, reliable, easy-to-use Electro-Optic Modulators. Here are some of the primary reasons why scientists and engineers rely on us for optical modulators…

Exceptional performance and quality.

Exceptional performance and quality. We've worked hard to design modulators with low drive voltages, low insertion loss and high maximum optical-power handling. To maintain low insertion loss, our standard modulators have broadband anti-reflection coatings. To increase the optical-power handling capability, our modulators are available in KTP or magnesium-oxide-doped LiNbO3. Our modulators are designed, built, and tested for exceptional reliability and quality.

Easy to use. Our modulators are truly user-friendly.

The mechanical apertures coincide with the optical axis. When the beam is unobstructed, it propagates through a region of the crystal where the electric field is very uniform, giving you minimal wavefront distortion and low residual amplitude modulation. And with our four-axis stages, RF drivers and optical accessories, aligning and using our modulators is even easier.

Broad selection.

We offer a wide variety of modulators from DC to 10 GHz, phase and amplitude, resonant and broadband, visible to IR wavelengths, new high-damage-threshold, and high-efficiency versions. New Focus is the place to find the right optical modulator for your
application needs.

Excellent value.

Our optical modulators deliver the performance and quality you need along with the convenience you want at affordable prices.

Selecting an Electro-Optic Modulator

In selecting the appropriate modulatorfor your application, keep in mind whether you need phase or amplitude modulation, broadband or resonant operation, as well as your operating frequency and wavelength. We've also introduced new phase modulators based on KTP crystals for high-damage-thresholds, and new modulators based on a patent-pending design for high-efficiency. Click Electro-Optic Modulators to shop or browse all of our standard models, or select a modulator series below for more information.

	Wavelength Range nm	Operating Frequency	Material
Amplitude Modulators	500-900 and 1000-1600	DC-200 MHz	LiNbO₃ and MgO:LiNbO₃
Standard Phase Modulators	500-900 and 1000-1600	0.01-250, DC-100, 250-2000, and 2000-4600 MHz	MgO:LiNbO₃
High Damage Threshold Phase Modulators	500-900 and 1000-1600	0.01-250 MHz	KTP
High Efficiency Phase Modulators	500-900 and 1000-1600	500-2000 MHz	KTP and LiNbO₃