{"id":699,"date":"2021-10-09T08:06:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T08:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2021-10-09T08:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T08:06:01","slug":"bbo-crystals-lithium-triborate-advantages-and-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/bbo-crystals-lithium-triborate-advantages-and-features\/699.html","title":{"rendered":"BBO Crystals Lithium Triborate Advantages and features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Barium-borate (BBO or BaB2O4) has two phases: \u03b1 phase \u2013 high temperature phase \u03b2 phase \u2013 low temperature phase \u03b2-barium-borate (BBO) differs from the \u03b1barium-borate by the positions of the barium ions in the crystal. Although both \u03b1-BBO and \u03b2-BBO phases are birefringent, \u03b1-BBO phase has centric symmetry and thus different nonlinear properties in comparison to the \u03b2-BBO phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beta-barium-borate (BBO) is a non-linear optical (NLO) crystal with a set of specific features: large non-linear coefficient for ultraviolet (UV), high damage threshold, broad phase matching, low GDD for ultrafast applications and wide transparency range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/cat_detail?path=22_108_237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BBO crystals<\/a><\/strong> are one of the best electro-optical (EO) crystals and TOP tier non-linear optical (NLO) crystals, they are widely used for 2nd \u2013 5th harmonic generations in most popular lasers and optical parametric oscillators (OPO), mostly (but not limited to) Ti:Sapphire, Yb:KGW\/KYW laser systems, pockel cells and other applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article comes from findlight edit released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barium-borate (BBO or BaB2O4) has two phases: \u03b1 ph &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}