Nonlinear Optical BBO Crystals: Growth, Properties and Applications

作     者：TANG Ding Yuan (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002) TANG Ding-Yuan

作者机构：中科院福建物质结构所 福建 福州 3 50 0 0 2 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry》 (结构化学(英文版))

年 卷 期：2000年第19卷第2期

页      面：112-121页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 070205[理学-凝聚态物理] 08[工学] 080501[工学-材料物理与化学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0703[理学-化学] 0702[理学-物理学] 

主　　题：nonlinear optical material barium metaborate crystal growth crystal property 

摘      要：Low temperature phase barium metaborate β BaB 2O 4(BBO) is an important nonlinear optical material. Up to now, the BBO single crystals with large size and good optical quality were grown from Na 2O or NaF fluxed solvents by the top seeded solution growth (TSSG) technique with or without pulling. In order to improve the growth rate and quality of BBO crystals, several new techniques such as continuous feeding, forced stirring and cooling growing crystals etc. have been suggested. Applications of BBO as an excellent nonlinear optical crystal include mainly frequency conversion of various laser radiation, high average power frequency conversion, frequency doubling of ultrashort pulses and broadly tunable optical parametric oscillators (OPO). This paper is a brief review on the growth, properties and applications of BBO crystals.