BBO
Introduction
Beta-barium borate (BBO) has the following exceptional properties that make it a very important nonlinear crystal, BBO is grown with the flux method. It is a negative uniaxial crystal, with ordinary refractive-index (no) larger than extraordinary refractive-index (ne).
SHG phase-matching range from 410 nm to 2100 nm
Transmission from 190 nm to 3500 nm
Large effective nonlinear coefficient
High damage threshold ;
Wide temperature-bandwidth of about 55°C.
Physical and Chemical Properties:
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The Sellmeier equations (l in µm ):
no2=2.7359+0.01878/(l 2-0.01822)-0.01354l 2
Optical and Spectral Properties:
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BBO is of particular importance in the visible and far UV. A wide variety of phase-matching applications are possible, including the following:
Second, third, fourth and fifth harmonic generation of Nd doping lasers;
Frequency-doubling, -tripling and -mixing of Dye lasers;|
Second, third and fourth harmonic generation of Ti:Sapphire lasers;
Optical parametric amplifier (OPA) and optical parametric oscillators (OPO);
| Dimension tolerance | (W ± 0.1 mm) x (H ± 0.1 mm) x (L + /-0.2 mm) |
| Transmitting wavefront distortion: | lambda/8 @ 633 nm |
| Clear aperture: | > 90% central area |
| Flatness: | lambda/8 @ 633 nm |
| Scratch/Dig code: | 10/5 to MIL-O-13830A |
| Parallelism: | better than 20 arc seconds |
| Perpendicularity: | 15 arc minutes |
| Angle tolerance: | Δθ < ±0.3°, Δφ < ± 0.3° |
| AR coating: | R< 0.1% at 1064nm and R<0.4% at 532 nm. |
| Quality Warranty Period: | one year under proper use. |