“…As a nonlinear material, we chose lithium triborate (LBO) because it can be noncritically phase matched and is expected to be nonhygroscopic [13]. Noncritical phase matching is beneficial because it avoids a walk-off angle between the fundamental and harmonic waves, which tends to distort the harmonic beam shape [14] and limits the interaction length. Furthermore, several publications have reported that, at the employed intensity levels, LBO did not show the above-mentioned performance degradations (e.g., [15,16]).…”