Beta-Barium Borate (β-BaB2O4 or BBO) is a kind of nonlinear crystal with good performance. It can be widely used in dye laser, ultrafast pulse laser, titanium sapphire, argon ion laser, copper vapor laser and other different types of laser systems. In addition, the OPO and OPA systems of BBO crystal can be used to generate a large range of adjustable phase dry light radiation from ultraviolet to infrared.
Specifications:
Dimension Tolerance----------------(W±0.1mm)x(H±0.1mm)x(L+0.5/-0.1mm)
Angle Tolerance----------------------△θ< 0.25°,△Φ < 0.25°
Clear Aperture-----------------------central 95% of the diameter
Surface Flatness--------------------<λ/10 at 633nm
Wavefront Distortion---------------<λ/8 @ 633nm
Chamfer--------------------------------0.1mm@45°
Surface Quality (S/D)---------------10 /5
Parallelism----------------------------< 20 arc seconds
Perpendicularity---------------------< 5 arc minutes
Coatings: Protective (P) and Anti-reflection (AR) coating available upon customer’s requests
Damage threshold------------------>1 GW/cmfor1064nm,TEM00,10ns,10HZ(polished only)
------------------>0.5 GW/cm2for 1064nm,TEM00,10ns,10HZ(AR-coated)
------------------>0.3 GW/cm2 for 532nm,TEM00,10ns,10HZ(AR-coatd)
Chemical and Structural properties
Crystal Structure | Trigonal, space group R3c |
Lattics Parameters | a=b=12.532, c=12.717 , Z=6 |
Melting point | About 1095°C |
Mohs Hardness | 4 |
Density | 3.85g/cm3 |
Thermal Conductivity | 1.2W/m/K(┴c): 1.6w/m/K(||c) |
Thermal Expansion Coefficients | α,4x10-6/K; c,36x10-6/K |
Optical and Nontinear Optical Properties
Transparency Range | 190-3500nm |
SHG Phase Matchable Range | 409.6-3500nm(Type I) |
therm-optic Coefficients(/°C) | dno/dT=-9.3x 10-6/°C |
Absorption Coefficients | <0.1%/cm at 1064nm |
Angle Acceptance | 0.8mrad-cm(θ, Type I,1064 SHG) |
Temperature Acceptance | 55°C-cm |
Walk-off Angle | 1.1nm-cm |
Walk-off Angle | 2.7°(Type I 1064 SHG) |
NLO Coefficients | deff(I)=d31sinθ+(d11cosΦ-d22sin3Φ)cosθ |
Non-vanished NLO susceptibilities | d11=5.8xd36(KDP) |
sellmeier Equations(λ in μm ) | no2=2.7359+0.01878 / (λ2-0.01822) -0.01354 λ2 |
Electro-optic coefficients | r11=2.7pm/V, r22, r31<0.1γ11 |
Half-wave voltage | 48Kv(at 1064nm) |
Resistivity | >1011 ohm-cm |
Relative Dielectric Constant | εs11/εo:6.7 |