Description

NLO Crystals has broad tunability, high damage threshold, and high efficiency. BBO's small acceptance angle requires a very good beam quality and its large walkoff results in output beams that are very elliptical or slit-like. Type I is usually much more efficient than type II operation. BBO can not be used for NCPM (temperature tuned) application.
BBO is very good for tunable laser sources, such as ultrafast Ti:Sapphire or dye lasers. And it is also widely used for SHG, 3HG, 4HG, and autocorrelation of femtosecond and picosecond Ti:Sapphire lasers; SHG, 3HG, 4HG, 5HG of YAG lasers at ***4 nm and ***0 nm to yield output of ******0nm; SHG of tunable dye or solid-state laser sources from ******0 nm to yield output of ******5 nm, SFM of dye laser and YAG harmonics to yield output of ******0 nm; DFM (difference-frequency mixing) from the Visible to the IR range up to over ***0 nm; OPO pumped with SHG or 3HG of YAG or Ti:Sapphire with an output range of *******0 ; Intracavity SHG of Argon ion lasers (**8, **4 nm).