BBO Crystal


He Rui optics' The BBO crystal, also known as Barium Borate (β-BaB2O4), is a nonlinear optical crystal widely used in the fields of optics and communications. This crystal has gained significant attention due to its comprehensive advantages and excellent performance. BBO crystals boast a wide transmission range, low absorption coefficient, weak piezoelectric ringing effect, high extinction ratio, large phase matching angle, high optical damage threshold, and good optical homogeneity. These characteristics make BBO crystals particularly suitable for enhancing the stability of laser output power, especially in second, third, fourth, and fifth harmonic generation applications of Nd:YAG lasers.

BBO crystal remains the most versatile nonlinear optical crystals thanks to its unique combination of optical properties (e.g.  broad transmission and phase matching ranges, high damage threshold) and availability of large, high quality single crystals. Heruioptics' BBO crystals have been widely used in second, third, fourth or fifth harmonic generations for high power visible/UV sources, and optical parametric conversions for high power broadly tunable sources.


Dimension Tolerance(W±0.1mm) x ( H±0.1mm) x (L+0.2mm/-0.1mm)
Angle toleranceΔθ< 0.25°, Δφ< 0.25°
Flatnessλ/10 @ 633nm
Wavefront distortion< λ/8 @ 633nm
Scratch&Dig10/5 scratch/dig
Parallism< 20 arc seconds
Verticality< 5 arc minutes
Clear Aperture≥Centre Diameter 95%
Chamferx 45°±5°chamfer
CoatingR < 0.2% @ 1064nm, R < 0.5% @ 532nm
Damage Threshold (ARcoating)>0.5 GW/cm2 for 1064nm,TEM00,10ns,10HZ
>0.3 GW/cm for 532nm,TEM00,10ns,10HZ

Lattice structure trigonal system, space group R3c
Lattice parametersa=b=12.532, c=12.717 , z=6
Melting pointabout 1095℃
Mohs hardness4
Density3.85g/cm3
Thermal conductivity1.2W/m/K(┴c): 1.6w/m/K(//c)
Thermal expansion coefficientα,4x10-6/K; c,36x10-6/K

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