Caesium lithium borate
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| IUPACName = caesium oxide—lithium oxide—boron oxide (1/1/6)
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| Formula = CsLiB6O10
| MolarMass = 364.71 g/mol
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| CrystalStruct = tetragonal, point group 4m2
| LattConst_a = 1049.4 pm
| LattConst_c = 893.9 pm
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Caesium lithium borate or cesium lithium borate (CsLiB6O10), also known as CLBO, is a non-linear crystal for ultraviolet applications and generates the fourth and fifth harmonics of the Nd:YAG fundamental laser wavelength (1064 nm).
Nonlinear optical properties of CLBO
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!Harmonics wavelength !Phase-matching angle !Calculated deff !Walk-off angle !Angular bandwidth !Spectral bandwidth !Temperature bandwidth | ||||||
| 266 | 61.6 | 0.84 | 1.83 | 0.49 | 0.13 | 8.3 |
| 213 | 67.3 | 0.87 | 1.69 | 0.42 | 0.16 | 5.1 |
References
- {{citation | doi = 10.1063/1.115413 | first1 = Y. | last1 = Mori | first2 = I. | last2 = Kuroda | first3 = S. | last3 = Nakajima | first4 = T. | last4 = Sasaki | first5 = S. | title = New nonlinear optical crystal: Cesium lithium borate | last5 = Nakai | journal = Appl. Phys. Lett. | volume = 67 | issue = 13 | pages = 1818 | year = 1995| bibcode = 1995ApPhL..67.1818M | doi-access = free }}.
- {{citation | first1 = Y. | last1 = Mori | first2 = Y. K. | last2 = Yap | first3 = M. | last3 = Inagaki | first4 = S. | last4 = Nakajima | first5 = A. | last5 = Taguchi | first6 = W. L. | last6 = Zhou | first7 = T. | last7 = Sasaki | title = Advanced Solid-State Lasers | series = Topics in Optics and Photonics 1 | publisher = Optical Society of America | location = Washington, D.C. | year = 1996 | page = 341 | isbn = 1-55752-179-4}}.
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Further reading
- {{citation | doi = 10.1364/OL.28.001242 | first1 = D. | last1 = Gerstenberger | first2 = T. | last2 = Trautmann | first3 = M. | last3 = Bowers | title = Noncritically phase-matched second-harmonic generation in cesium lithium borate | url = http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-28-14-1242 | journal = Opt. Lett. | volume = 28 | issue = 14 | pages = 1242–44 | year = 2003| pmid = 12885034 | bibcode = 2003OptL...28.1242G | url-access = subscription }}.
- {{cite patent | inventor1-last = Sasaki | inventor1-first = Takatomo | inventor2-last = Mori | inventor2-first = Yusuke | assign = Japan Science and Technology Corporation | country= US | number = 5998313 | pubdate = 1999-12-07|title=Cesium-lithium borate crystal}}.
External links
- [http://www.mt-berlin.com/frames_cryst/descriptions/clbo.htm Non-linear Crystal Cesium Lithium Borate (CsLiB6O10 or CLBO)] from MolTech GmbH
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