Growth, Characterization and Optical Device Applications of B-Barium Borate

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A one-year research program is proposed to develop new optical sources such as widely tunable optical parametric oscillators and ultra-violet femtosecond laser sources based on the new nonlinear optical crystal barium metaborate (BBO). The investigators of this proposal have recently succeeded in growing large crystals of BBO for the first time in this country. However, much work remains to perfect the growth technology and to characterize completely this new crystal. They propose to concentrate on the following tasks: (1) perfect the growth technology of large BBO crystals; (2) complete characterization of BBO crystals; (3) develop femtosecond uv laser sources using intra-cavity doubling in BBO.