KBBF Crystal KBBF is capable of producing DUV and even vacuum-UV coherent light by direct second harmonic generation, but a major problem is its plate-like growth nature that makes it very difficult to grow samples thicker than4 mmalong the c-axis, and KBBF crystal is cleaves easily, so it is impossible to cut the crystal along the phase-matching angle. With a directly incident pump, the external incident angle will increase to 90° for a second harmonic wavelength of 235 nm. To solve the problem… ADVANTAGES 4th harmonic generation of Nd:YAG laser at 266nm (1) Advantages of KBBF over BBO and CLBO ●Much higher damage threshold ●Much smaller two-photon absorption ●No photorefractive effect ●No moisture (2)Disadvantages of KBBF over BBO and CLBO ● Deff (KBBF) = 1.53(KDP) ● Deff (BBO) = 2.72(KDP) ● Deff (CLBO) = 1.97KDP) at 266nm
Targets the KBBF can realize:
● Watt-level 193nm output power with 4th HG of Ti:sapphire Laser
● 100-500mw QCW 177.3nm output power with 6th HG of Nd:YAG Laser
● Wide tunable 2.0mw coherent light output from 220nm-175.0nm with 4th HG of tunable Ti:sapphire Laser
● average 7.8 watt-level 266nm output power
● stable mw-level 165-167nm output power
Optical Properties
Deff :
KBBF crystal belongs to the space group R32, so from the point group symmetry of D3 and the IEEE/ANSI standard definition of the dij coefficient, it has only two nonzero dij coefficients, namely, d11 and d14. The matrix form of the coefficients can be written as follows:
where d14 is very small according to both theoretical calculation and experiments. On the other hand, the effective deff coefficients of KBBF are:
deff=d11cosqcos3f (type I)
deff=d11cos2qsin3f (type = 2 * ROMAN II)
By comparing the fringe envelope of the d11 coefficient with the d36 coefficient in KDP, the d11 of KBBF is deduced to be (0.47+0.01) pm/V (d36(KDP)= 0.39 pm/V).
Transparency range ：
The cutoff wavelength on the UV side is located at 150 nm, and on the IR side around3.5mm. There is virtually no absorption in this region.
Sellmeier coefficients ：
Sellmeier equations as follows: (l is in units of mm)
no2=2.1738+0.00764λ2-0.01641-0.01174λ2
ne2=1.9319+0.00623λ2-0.00400-0.00356λ2
Damage threshold ：
It has been measured and compared with that of BBO under the same laser pump conditions (1064 nm, 1 Hz, 10.5 ns), The value is 35.51 J/cm2 (3.38 GW/ cm2) for the former, which is more than two times larger than the 13.47 J/cm2(1.28 GW/ cm2) of the latter; With a 200 fs pulse width and 1 kHz repetition rate at 390 nm, the damage threshold of KBBF was found to be as high as 60 GW/ cm2.
