a-BBO Crystal

a-BBO Crystal

a-BBO Crystal

High temperature form BBO ( -BaB2O4) are negative uniaxial crystals. They have large birefringence over a broad transparent range of 190nm to 3500nm. The physical, chemical, thermal and optical proper..

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a-BBO Crystal

High temperature form BBO (α -BaB2O4) are negative uniaxial crystals. They have large birefringence over a broad transparent range of 190nm to 3500nm. The physical, chemical, thermal and optical properties of α -BBO crystals are similar to those of ß -BBO. However, the nonlinear optical properties of α -BBO crystals are nonexistent due to the centric symmetry with its crystal structure. α -BBO crystals are not recommended for NLO processes.
 

Features:

High UV transmittance
arge birefringence
High damage threshold
Stable physical and mechanical properties
 

Basic Properties:

Transparency Range
190-3500nm
Density
2.7g/cm3
Hygroscopic Susceptibility
low
Mohs Hardness
4.5
Thermal Expansion Coefficients(/CO)
aa=9.3 X10-6/K
ac=9.3X10-6/K
Damage Threshold
>1GW/cm2
Sellmeier Equation (λ in μm)
no2 = 2.7471+0.01878/(λ2 -0.01822)-0.01354λ2
ne 2 = 2.37153+0.01224/(λ2 -0.01667)-0.01516λ
 

Capabilities:

Item
a-BBO Crystal
Size
0.1-40mm
Optical Axis Orientation
<6 arc min
Parallelism
<10 arc sec
Surface Quality
20/10
Flatness
  λ/ 8
Clear Aperture
>95%
Coating
Upon Customer's Specification