Generation of UV light by frequency doubling in BIBO

Ruseva, Valentina; Hald, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2004.03.033

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“…BIBO is a chemically stable and nonhygroscopic crystal [47][48][49]. Besides the damage levels listed in Table 3, photorefractive effects have been observed in SHG with tightly focused CW beams [17,27,104]. Information on other characteristics such as electro-optic, piezoelectric and elastic properties, can be found in [79] and [105].…”

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“…In the CW regime, these include intracavity SHG of Nd:YAG lasers at 532 nm [2], Nd:YVO 4 lasers at 532 nm [3][4][5] and 542 nm [5], Nd:YAG lasers at 473 nm [6][7][8][9][10][11], Nd:GdVO 4 laser at 456 nm [12][13][14], Nd:YVO 4 laser at 671 nm [15], Nd:YLiF 4 laser at 661 nm [16], Ti:sapphire lasers at 423 nm [17], 392 and 405 nm [18,19] as well as continuously tunable from 373 to 435 nm [20], optically pumped semiconductor disk laser at 529 nm [21], diode-pumped Rb vapour laser at 397.4 nm [22,23], and from 425 to 489 nm with a singly resonant OPO based on PPSLT [24]; SHG in an enhancement cavity of diode lasers at 423 and 390 nm [25,26] and of Ti:sapphire lasers at 384-425 nm [17,[27][28][29][30]; and intracavity SFG of dual-wavelength Nd:YVO 4 lasers at 593.5 nm [31,32], 537 nm [5], and 491 nm [33]. Recently CW SHG at ∼ 491 nm has been demonstrated extracavity, using an Yb-doped single-mode fiber laser [34].…”

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Femtosecond nonlinear frequency conversion based on BiB₃O₆

Petrov¹,

Ghotbi

Kokabee

et al. 2010

Laser & Photonics Reviews

112

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We review the physical properties, linear and nonlinear optical characteristics, and phase-matching configurations of BiB3O6 (BIBO), the first low-symmetry (monoclinic) inorganic nonlinear crystal that has found broad applications for frequency conversion of laser sources from the UV, across the visible, to the near-IR based on three-wave interactions. We describe in detail the most relevant optical properties that make this material an attractive candidate for nonlinear frequency conversion of laser light in general, and ultrafast femtosecond laser sources in particular. With special focus on ultrafast frequency conversion, characteristics such as group-velocity mismatch and spectral acceptance, parametric gain bandwidth, group-velocity dispersion, as well as angular acceptance and spatial walk-off are evaluated and optimum configurations for the attainment of maximum conversion efficiency, minimum pulse duration, and highest spatial beam quality are identified and compared with the most widely established alternative borate crystal, β-BaB2O4. Experimental results are presented on both parametric up-and down-conversion of femtosecond pulses, from the high-energy, low-repetition-rate (1 kHz) to the low-energy, high-repetitionrate (56-76 MHz) regime, demonstrating the unique versatility of BIBO for efficient frequency conversion of femtosecond pulses with broad tunability from 250 nm in the UV, throughout the visible, up to ∼ 3000 nm in the IR.Photograph of a femtosecond synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator (SPOPO) based on BiB3O6 emitting in the yellow region of the spectrum. Pumped near 400 nm in the blue by the second harmonic of a Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser, the SPOPO can generate femtosecond pulses across the full visible range of 480-710 nm, from the blue-green, through to yellow, orange and red.

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Section: Bibo: Relevant Propertiesmentioning

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Femtosecond nonlinear frequency conversion based on BiB₃O₆

Petrov¹,

Ghotbi

Kokabee

et al. 2010

Laser & Photonics Reviews

112

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“…In recent years, binary bismuth borates have been of continuing interest for their excellent optical properties, especially, the BiB 3 O 6 [1][2][3][4] crystal that displays large nonlinear optical (NLO) efficiency. Barbier [5] system and found a series of new phases, such as ZnBi 2 B 2 O 7 (ZBBO), CaBi 2 B 2 O 7 , CaBiGaB 2 O 7 [6], BaBiBO 4 , etc.…”

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Growth, thermal and optical properties of a new nonlinear optical crystal: ZnBi2B2O7

et al. 2009

Journal of Crystal Growth

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“…Recent increase of interest in this system is related to the outstanding nonlinear properties of monoclinic bismuth triborate BiB 3 O 6 , which is one of five stable crystalline compounds in this system [2,3]. Presently, a number of papers are devoted to the growth and study of optical properties of monoclinic BiB 3 O 6 [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]; however, the processes of formation of this crystal are still not explored to the necessary extent. The studies of isovalent doping of monoclinic BiB 3 O 6 with rare earths were done in order to obtain new laser materials for diode pumped lasers.…”

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