BIBO
Description:
BIBO (BiB3O6) is a newly developed Nonlinear Optical Crystal. It has advanced characteristic for the NLO application broad transparency range from 286nm to 2500nm.
Features:
large effective SHG coefficient (about 9 times that of KDP);
Wide temperature-bandwidth;
Inertness with respect to moisture.
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 | Deff | Walk-off | Output Power(W) | Conv. Eff. |
| (mm) | (pm/V) | (mrad) | |||
| BIBO | 10.4 | 3.3 | 40.7 | 2.8 | 63% |
| LBO | 10 | 0.81 | 11.3 | 1.52 | 33% |
| BBO | 8 | 2 | 60.3 | 2.1 | 47% |
Specifications:
| Dimension tolerance | (W ± 0.1 mm) x (H ± 0.1 mm) x (L + /-0.2 mm) |
| Transmitting wavefront distortion | λ/8 @ 633 nm |
| Clear aperture | > 90% central area |
| Flatness | λ/8 @ 633 nm |
| Surface quality:Scratch/Dig | 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% @ 1064nm and R<0.4% @ 532 nm |
| Quality Warranty Period | one year under proper use |