BiB3O6 Crystal

BIBO (BiB3O6) is a newly developed nonlinear Optical Crystal. It possesses large effective nonlinear coeffcient, high damage threshold and inertness with respect to moisture. Its nonlinear coefficient is 3.5-4 times higher than that of LBO,1.5-2 times higher than that of BBO. It is a promising doubling crystal to produce blue laser. The top-seeded solution growth (TSSG) technique is used at CASTECH for the growth of BIBO single crystals.


CASTECH offers:

  • strict quality control;

  • large crystal size up to 10x10x15mm3

  • AR-coating,mounts and repolishing services;

  • fast delivery

Table 1.Chemical and Structural properties

Crystal Structure Monoclinic,Point group 2
Lattice Parameter a=7.116Å, b=4.993Å, c=6.508Å, β=105.62° ,Z=2
Melting Point 726°C
Mohs Hardness 5-5.5
Density 5.033 g/cm3
Thermal Expansion coefficient αa=4.8x10-5/K,   αb=4.4x10-6/K,  αc=-2.69x10-5/K

Table 2. Optical and Nonlinear Optical properties

Transparency Range 286-2500nm
Absorption Coefficient <0.1%/cm at 1064nm
Physical Axis X//b,(Z,a)=31.6°,(Y,c)=47.2°
SHG of 1064/532

Phase matching angle:168.9° from z axis in YZ plane

Deff:3.0+/-0.1 pm/V

Angular acceptance:2.32 arad-cm

Walk-off angle :25.6 mrad

temperature acceptance:2.17°C-cm

 

Sellmeier coefficients
ni2(λ)=A+B / (λ2-C)-Dλ2
n1
A
B
C
D
n2
3.6545(4)
0.0511(2)
0.0371(3)
0.0226(1)
n3
3.0740(3)
0.0323(1)
0.0316(3)
0.01337(6)
n4
3.1685(3)
0.0373(1)
0.0346(3)
0.01750(8)

CASTECH Warranty on BIBO Specifications

    · Dimension tolerance: (W±0.1mm)x(H±0.1mm)x(L+0.5/-0.1mm) (L≥2.5mm)

                                                   (W±0.1mm)x(H±0.1mm)x(L+0.1/-0.1mm) (L<2.5mm)

    · Clear aperture: central 90% of the diameter

    · Flatness: less than λ/8 @ 633nm

    · Transmitting wavefront distortion: less than λ/8 @ 633nm

    · Chamfer: ≤0.2mm@45°

    · Chip: ≤0.1mm

    · Scratch/Dig code: better than 10/ 5 to MIL-O-13830A

    · Parallelism: better than 20 arc seconds

    · Perpendicularity: ≤5 arc minutes

    · Angle tolerance: Δθ≤0.25°, Δφ≤0.25°

    · Damage threshold[GW/cm ]: >0.3 for 1064nm, TEM00, 10ns, 10HZ

    · Quality Warranty Period: one year under proper use.

 
 
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