BBO BBO-Z-551-C3

Because of a small acceptance angle and large walk-off, good laser beam quality (small divergence, good mode condition, etc.) is the key for BBO to obtain high conversion efficiency. Tight focus of laser beam is not recommended. BBO is the only NLO material which can be used to produce the fifth harmonic generation (5HG) of Nd:YAG lasers at 213 nm

SHG, THG, 4HG, 5HG of Nd lasers; SHG, THG, 4HG of Ti:Al2O3 and Alexandrite lasers; SHG, THG and Frequency-mixing of Dye lasers; SHG of Argon ion, Cu-vapor and Ruby lasers; OPA and OPO; Electro-Optical application (Pockels Cell); SHG and SFG; BBO is a negative uniaxial crystal with ordinary refractive-index(no) larger than extraordinary refractive-index(ne). Both type I and type II phase-matching can be reached by angle-tuning. The phase matching angles of frequency doubling are shown in following figure. Frequency-doubling and -tripling of ultrashort-pulse lasers are the applications in which BBO shows superior properties. As thin as 0.02mm BBO for this purpose is available. A laser pulse as short as 10 fs can be efficiently frequency-doubled with a thin BBO, in terms of both phase-velocity and group-velocity matching. The OPO and OPA of BBO are powerful tools for generating a widely tunable coherent radiation from the UV to IR. The tuning angles of type I and type II BBO OPO and OPA are shown in following figure, respectively. BBO can also be used for E-O applications. It has wide transmission range from UV to about 3500nm and it has much higher damage threshold than KD*P and LiNbO3. It has many advantages, including a very short pulse, good beam quality and compact size. Although it has a relative small electro-optic coefficient, the Half-wave voltage is high (7KV at 1064nm,3*3*20mm3), long and thin BBO can reduce the voltage requirements. CRYSTECH can supply 25mm long high quality BBO crystal with Z-cut, AR-coated and Gold plated on the side faces

Wide transmission region; Broad PM SHG range; Large effective SHG coefficient; High damage threshold; Wide temperature-bandwidth; High optical homogeneity