Advantages:
- Broad phase matching (SHG) range
- Wide transimisson region from 190~3500nm
- Large effective SHG coefficient
- High damage threshold, High optical homogeneity
- Good mechanical and physical properties
BBO is used in various NLO applications such as OPO, OPA. BBO is broadly used because of its wide transparency and phase matching ranges, large non-linear coefficient, perfect optical homogeneity and high damage threshold. Large range of thermal acceptance, high damage threshold and small absorption coefficient makes BBO a good solution for frequency conversion in high average power laser systems.
Application:
- SHG, THG, 4HG, 5HG of Nd lasers
- SHG, THG, 4HG of Ti:sapphire and Alexandrite lasers
- SHG, THG and Frequency-mixing of Dye lasers
- SHG of Argon ion, Cu-vapor and Ruby lasers
- OPA and OPO, Pockels’ Cell
| Angle Tolerance | <+/-0.25deg |
| Dimension Tolerances | +/-0.1 mm |
| Surface Quality | 10/5 Scratch/Dig |
| Parallelism | <10″ |
| Perpendicularity | <5′ |
| Clear Aperture | >90% |
| Wavefront Distortion | <λ/8@632.8 nm |
| Surface Flatness | <λ/10@632.8 nm |
| Chamfer | <0.1mm@45deg |
| Coating | AR/P-coating Upon customer’s request |