LBO Crystal


Large aperture: max 20x20 mm
Various size: max length 60 mm
High transmittance: AR coating with R<0.1% (at 1064/532nm)
End configuration: flat, or Brewster, or specified
Mounting: upon request
Very competitive price

Contact Now
Product Details

LBO (LiB3O5) is a kind of non-linear optical crystal with good ultraviolet transmittance (210-2300 nm), high laser damage threshold and large effective frequency doubling coefficient (about 3 times of KDP crystal). So LBO is commonly used to produce high power second and third harmonic laser light, especially for ultraviolet lasers.

LBO has large band gap and transparency region, high non-linear coupling, good chemical and mechanical properties. These features make this crystal capable of optical parametric processes (OPO/OPA) and noncritical phase matching (NCPM), too.

LBO Crystal

WISOPTIC Standard Specifications* - LBO 

Dimension Tolerance

± 0.1 mm

Angle Tolerance

< ± 0.25°

Flatness

< λ/8 @ 632.8 nm

Surface Quality

< 10/5 [S/D]

Parallelism

< 20”

Perpendicularity

≤ 5'

Chamfer

≤ 0.2mm @ 45°

Transmitted Wavefront Distortion

< λ/8 @ 632.8 nm

Clear Aperture

> 90% central area

Coating

AR coating or Broad Band AR-coating

R<0.1% @ 1064 nm, R<0.1% @ 532 nm, R<0.5% @ 355 nm

Laser Damage Threshold

> 10 GW/cm2 for 1064nm, 10ns, 10Hz (polished only)
> 1.0 GW/cm2 for 1064nm, 10ns, 10Hz (AR-coated)
> 0.5 GW/cm2 for 532nm, 10ns, 10Hz (AR-coated)

* Products with special requirement upon request.

Main Features - LBO

Broad transparency range from 160 nm to 2.6 µm
High optical homogeneity, free of inclusion
Relatively large effective SHG coefficient (about three times that of KDP)
Broad wavelength range of Type I and Type II non-critical phase matching (NCPM)
Wide acceptance angle, small walk-off
High laser damage threshold

LBO Crystal

Comparison of bulk damage threshold [1064nm, 1.3ns]

Crystals

Energy fluence (J/cm²)

Power density (GW/cm²)

KTP

6.0

4.6

KDP

10.9

8.4

BBO

12.9

9.9

LBO

24.6

18.9

 Primary Applications - LBO

Either Type I or Type II frequency doubling (SHG) and sum frequency generation (SFG) of high peak power Nd-doped (Nd:YVO4, Nd:YAG, Nd:YLF), Ti:Sapphire, Alexandrite and Cr:LiSAF lasers
Third harmonic generation (THG) of Nd-doped lasers
Temperature-controllable non-critical phase matching (NCPM) for 1.0–1.3 µm
Room temperature NCPM for Type II SHG at 0.8–1.1 µm
Widely tunable OPO/OPA for both Type I and Type II phase matching

LBO Crystal

Physical Properties - LBO

Chemical formula

LiB3O5

Crystal structure

Orthorhombic

Point group

mm2

Space group

Pna21

Lattice constants

a=8.46 Å, b=7.38 Å, c=5.13 Å, Z=2

Density

2.474 g/cm3

Melting point

835 °C

Mohs hardness

6

Thermal conductivity

3.5 W/(m·K)

Thermal expansion coefficients

αx=10.8x10-5/K, αy=-8.8x10-5/K, αz=3.4x10-5/K

Hygroscopicity

Slightly hygroscopic

 Optical Properties - LBO

Transparency region
  (at “0” transmittance level)

155-3200 nm

Refractive

indices

1064 nm 

532 nm 

355 nm

nx=1.5656

ny=1.5905
nz=1.6055

nx=1.5785

ny=1.6065
nz=1.6212

nx=1.5973

ny=1.6286
nz=1.6444

Linear

absorption

coefficients

350~360 nm 

1064 nm 

α = 0.0031 /cm

α < 0.00035 /cm

NLO coefficients

(@ 1064 nm)

d31 = 1.05±0.09 pm/V, d32 = -0.98±0.09 pm/V,
d33 = 0.05±0.006 pm/V

WISOPTIC Transmittance curve of LBO without coating

LBO Crystal

WISOPTIC Transmittance curve of LBO with AR coating @ 1064/532nm

LBO Crystal


Leave your messages

Related Products

Popular products