Del Mar Photonics - Newsletter Fall 2010 - Newsletter Winter 2010

BBO crystals with mount diameter 25.4 mm
Common specifications  (e-mail to request a quote for standard or custom BBO crystal)
Material: BBO crystal
Dimensions: 6 x 6 mm (+/-0.1 mm)
Thickness: 0.2 mm
Surface Quality: 10-5, scratch-dig
Flatness: Lambda/6 at 633 nm
Parallelism: < 5 arc minutes
Other faces: fine grind
Coating: AR/AR at 800 nm and 400 nm for SHG and protective (P) coating for THG
Mount diameter: 25.4 mm

Type I, THG, 800 nm to 266 nm
Orientation: Theta=44.3 deg; Phi=90 deg (+/- 0.5 deg)
Part number:
BBO_THG_6_6_0.2_P_800_266

Coating: AR/AR at 800 nm and 400 nm for SHG

protective (P) coating

CERTIFICATE OF CONFORMITY (sample)

 

BBO Crystal (b-BaB2O4)


b-Barium-Borate crystals (BBO) combine wide transparency range, large nonlinear coupling, wide thermal acceptance bandwidth, high laser damage threshold and good mechanical properties.

Applications:

BBO SHG @ 532 nm BBO SHG @ 800 nm BBO THG @ 800 nm

Main properties:

Chemical formula b-BaB2O4
Space group R3c
Lattice parameters, A a = 12.532
b = 12.717
Mohs hardness 4
Density, g/cm3 3.84
Transparency range, nm 190 - 3300
Refractive indices: ne n0

1064 nm

532 nm

334 nm

266 nm

213 nm

1.5425

1.5555

1.5775

1.6146

1.6746

1.6551

1.6749

1.7055

1.7570

1.8470

Non-linear coefficients, pm/V d11 = 2.3
d31 = 0.07 d11
Optical damage threshold (532 nm, 15 ns) 5.4 GW/cm2

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