Shalom

• Broad phase matchable range from 409.6 nm to 3500 nm
• Wide transmission region from 190 nm to 3500 nm
• Large effective second-harmonic-generation (SHG) coefficient about 6 times greater than that of KDP crystal
• High damage threshold
• High optical homogeneity with dn » 10-6/cm
• Wide temperature-bandwidth of about 55°C

• BBO has a low susceptibility to the moisture. The user is advised to provide dry conditions for both the use and preservation of BBO.
• BBO is relatively soft and therefore requires precautions to protect its polished surfaces.
• When angle adjusting is necessary, keep in mind that the acceptance angle of BBO is small.
• Our engineers can select and design the best BBO crystal, if the main parameters of your laser are provided, such as energy per pulse, pulse width and repetition rate for a pulsed laser, power for a cw laser, laser beam diameter, mode condition, divergence, wavelength tuning range, etc.

BBO crystal has broad tunability, high damage threshold, and high efficiency. BBO's small acceptance angle requires a very good beam quality and its large walkoff results in output beams that are very elliptical or slit-like. Type I is usually much more efficient than type II operation. BBO can not be used for NCPM (temperature tuned) application.

• SHG ,3HG, 4HG and autocorrelation of femtosecond and picosecond Ti:Sapphire lasers;
• SHG, 3HG, 4HG, 5HG of YAG lasers at 1064 nm and 1320 nm to yield output of 212-660nm;
• SHG of tunable dye or solid-state laser sources from 410-750 nm to yield output of 205-375 nm;
• SFM of dye laser and YAG harmonics to yield output of 189-400 nm;
• DFM (difference-frequency mixing) from the Visible to the IR range up to over 3000 nm;
• OPO pumped with SHG or 3HG of YAG or Ti:Sapphire with an output range of 400-3000;
• Intracavity SHG of Argon ion lasers (488, 514 nm) or Copper vapor lasers (510 nm, 578 nm);
• Used as E-O crystals in pockels cells