{"id":783,"date":"2022-03-22T07:43:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T07:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/?p=783"},"modified":"2022-03-22T07:43:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T07:43:41","slug":"bbo-crystal-beta-barium-borate-crystal-can-be-customized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/bbo-crystal-beta-barium-borate-crystal-can-be-customized\/783.html","title":{"rendered":"BBO Crystal Beta-Barium Borate Crystal Can be Customized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u03b2-barium-borate (BBO crystals) differs from the \u03b1-barium-borate by the positions of the barium ions in the crystal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 crystals) is a non-linear optical (NLO) crystal with a set of specific features: large non-linear coefficient for ultraviolet (UV), high damage threshold (LIDT), broad phase matching, low GDD for ultrafast applications and wide transparency range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><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 (E-O) 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, Pockels cells and other applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article comes from 3photon edit released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u03b2-barium-borate (BBO crystals) differs from the \u03b1- &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\/783"}],"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=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}