Introduction
BIBO (BiB3O6)
is a newly developed Nonlinear Optical Crystal. It has advanced characteristic for
the NLO application
broad transparency range from 286nm to 2500nm;
large effective SHG coefficient (about 9 times that of KDP);
Wide temperature-bandwidth
Inertness with respect to moisture
Physical and Chemical Properties:
Please view NLO crysals physical Properities (dpf format)
The Sellmeier equations (l in µm ):
n12=3.6545+0.0511/(l2-0.0371)-0.0226l2
n22=3.0740+0.0323/(l2-0.0316)-0.01337l2
n32=3.1685+0.0373/(l2-0.0346)-0.01750l2
Optical and Spectral Properties:
Please view NLO crysals optical and nonlinear optical Properities (dpf format)
BIBO's
applications
SHG for middle and high power Nd: lasers at 1064nm
SHG of high power Nd: lasers at 1342nm & 1319nm
for red and blue laser
SHG for the Nd: Lasers at 914nm & 946nm for blue
laser.
Optical Parametric Amplifiers (OPA) and Oscillators
(OPO) application;
Nonlinear
Optical Properties Compare (SHG@946nm)
Crystals
|
Length
(mm) |
Deff
(pm/V) |
Walk-off
(mrad) |
Output Power(W)
|
Conv. Eff. |
BIBO |
10.4 |
3.3 |
40.7 |
2.8 |
63% |
LBO |
10 |
0.81 |
11.3 |
1.52 |
33% |
BBO |
8 |
2.0 |
60.3 |
2.1 |
47% |
BIBO's
Specification:
Dimension tolerance |
(W ± 0.1 mm) x (H ± 0.1 mm) x (L + /-0.2 mm) |
Transmitting wavefront distortion: |
l/8 @ 633 nm |
Clear aperture: |
> 90% central area |
Flatness: |
l/8 @ 633 nm |
Scratch/Dig code: |
10/5 to MIL-O-13830A |
Parallelism: |
better than 20 arc seconds |
Perpendicularity: |
15 arc minutes |
Angle tolerance: |
Dq < ±0.3°, Df < ± 0.3° |
AR coating: |
R< 0.1% at 1064nm and R<0.4% at 532 nm. |
Quality Warranty Period: |
one year under proper use. |
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