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BIBO Crystal

BiB3O6 (BIBO) is a newly developed nonlinear optical crystal. It possesses large effective nonlinear coefficient, 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.


  • Crystal Structure: Monoclinic，Point group 2
  • Lattice Parameter: Monoclinic，Point group 2
  • Melting Point: Monoclinic，Point group 2
  • Mohs Hardness: 5-5.5
  • Density: 5.033 g/cm3
  • Thermal Expansion Coefficients: αa=4.8 x 10-5/K , αb= 4.4 x 10-6/K, αc=-2.69 x 10-5/K
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    BiB3O6 (BIBO) is a newly developed nonlinear optical crystal. It possesses large effective nonlinear coefficient, 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. 
    BiB3O6 (BIBO) is an excellent kind of nonlinear Optical Crystal. NLO Crystals BIBO Crystals possesses large effective nonlinear coeffcient, wide advanced characteristic for the NLO application broad transparency range from 286nm to 2500nm, high damage threshold and inertness with respect to moisture. Its nonlinear coefficient is 3.5-4 times higher than that of LBO crystal, 1.5-2 times higher than that of BBO crystal. It is a promising doubling crystal to produce blue laser 473nm, 390nm.
    BiB3O6 (BIBO) for SHG is very common, especially Nonlinear Optical BIBO Crystal Second harmonic generation at 1064nm, 946nm and 780nm.
    The feature of this kind of Optical Crystal BIBO Crystal are as follows:
    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.

    Basic 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℃
    Mohs 5-5.5
    Density 5.033 g/cm3
    Thermal Expansion Coefficient αa=4.8 x 10-5/K , αb= 4.4 x 10-6/K, αc=-2.69 x 10-5/K
    Transparency Range 286- 2500 nm
    Absorption Coefficient <0.1%/cm at 1064nm
    SHG of 1064/532nm Phase matching angle: 168.9°from Z axis in YZ planDeff : 3.0 +/- 0.1 pm/VAngular acceptance: 2.32 mrad·cmWalk-off angle : 25.6 mradTemperature acceptance: 2.17 ℃·cm
    Physical Axis X∥b, (Z,a)=31.6°,(Y,c)=47.2°

     

    Technical Parameters
    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 ≤0.2mmx45°
    Chip ≤0.1mm
    Scratch/Dig better than 10/ 5 to MIL-PRF-13830B
    Parallelism better than 20 arc seconds
    Perpendicularity ≤5 arc minutes
    Angle tolerance △θ≤0.25°, △φ≤0.25°
    Damage threshold[GW/cm2] >0.3 for 1064nm, TEM00, 10ns, 10HZ

     

     

    Model Product Size Orientation Surface Mount Quantity
    DE0247 BIBO 5*5*0.5mm θ=154° φ=90° both sides polished Unmounted 1
    DE0305 BIBO 5*5*0.5mm θ=143.7°φ=90° S1:Pcoating@1030nm+515nm
    S2:Pcoating@343nm    		 φ25.4mm 1
    DE0305-1 BIBO 5*5*0.5mm θ=143.7°φ=90° S1:Pcoating@1030nm+515nm
    S2:Pcoating@343nm    		 Unmounted 1

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