BBO Crystals for EO Applications
Exceptional Laser Power Handling: Beta BBO crystals can handle high laser power levels, making them suitable for demanding laser applications.
High Damage Threshold: With a high damage threshold, Beta BBO crystals can withstand intense laser pulses without degradation.
Temperature Stability: Beta BBO crystals exhibit excellent temperature stability, ensuring reliable performance even in thermally challenging environments.
Minimal Piezoelectric Ringing: The low piezoelectric ringing of Beta BBO crystals reduces unwanted vibrations and noise in laser systems.
Applications: High Repetition Rate Q-Switching, Pulse Picking, Laser Cavity Dumping, Regenerative Amplifier Control, Beam Chopper, etc.
Beta Barium Borate (Beta BBO) crystals exhibit several significant advantages over other materials, making them highly attractive for a wide range of laser and electro-optic applications. These advantages include exceptional laser power handling abilities, a high damage threshold, temperature stability, and substantial freedom from piezoelectric ringing.
Specifications:
| Materials | Beta BBO crystals |
| Size Tolerance | L(±0.1mm)W(±0.1mm)H(+0.5/-0.1mm) |
| Cut Angle | Z-Cut |
| Clear Aperture | central 90% or the diameter |
| Scattering of Crystals | No visible scattering paths or centers when inspected by a 50mW green Laser |
| Flatness | less than λ/8 @ 633nm |
| Transmitting Wavefront Distortion | less than λ/8 @ 633nm |
| Chamfer | ≤0.2mmx45° |
| Chip | ≤0.1mm |
| Surface Quality | better than 10/5 S/D (MIL-PRF-13830B) |
| Parallelism | ≤20 arc seconds |
| Perpendicularity | ≤5 arc minutes |
| Angle Tolerance | ≤0.25° |
| Coating | AR/AR on both end surfaces Cr-Au electrode on two side surfaces |
| Quarter-wave voltage | TBA |
| Optical Transmission | >98% |
| Typical capacitance | 3pf |
| Damage Threshold | >500MW/cm^2 @1064nm, 10nS |
| Quality Warranty Period | one year under proper use |
Features:
- Exceptional Laser Power Handling: Beta BBO crystals can handle high laser power levels, making them suitable for demanding laser applications.
- High Damage Threshold: With a high damage threshold, Beta BBO crystals can withstand intense laser pulses without degradation.
- Temperature Stability: Beta BBO crystals exhibit excellent temperature stability, ensuring reliable performance even in thermally challenging environments.
- Minimal Piezoelectric Ringing: The low piezoelectric ringing of Beta BBO crystals reduces unwanted vibrations and noise in laser systems.
Applications:
- High Repetition Rate Q-Switching: Beta BBO crystals are ideal for high repetition rate Q-switching applications, enabling precise control of laser pulses.
- Pulse Picking: With capabilities up to 3 MHz, Beta BBO crystals are suitable for pulse picking applications in laser systems.
- Laser Cavity Dumping: Beta BBO crystals are effective for laser cavity dumping, allowing for efficient energy extraction from laser resonators.
- Regenerative Amplifier Control: Beta BBO crystals can be used for regenerative amplifier control, enabling precise amplification of laser pulses.
- Beam Chopper: Beta BBO crystals are suitable for beam chopper applications, allowing for precise modulation of laser beams.
Kingwin Optics offers high-quality Beta BBO crystals for use in Pockels cells. These crystals are precision polished, AR coated, and equipped with Cr-Au electrodes, ensuring optimal performance in laser and electro-optic applications. Stocked crystals of standard specifications are available for immediate selection, and customized special crystals can be provided upon customer request. Additionally, Kingwin Optics offers BBO Pockels cells, providing a complete solution for laser and electro-optic system integration.
