Enhancement of CsB3O5(CBO) crystal quality

Author

Wang, Z. ; Rajesh, D. ; Yoshimura, M. ; Shimatani, H. ; Kawamura, T. ; Kitaoka, Y. ; Mori, Y. ; Sasaki, T.

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Eng., Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

30-3 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

CsB₃O₅ (CBO) is an excellent nonlinear optical crystal and can be grown by top-seeded solution growth (TSSG) from self flux solutions. In this research, crystals with different cooling rates were grown to attempt to improve the crystal quality. Our investigations showed that, after cooling process, the scattering centers and optical loss of CBO were decreased. The bulk laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) was found to be 1.5 times that of conventional cooling process.

Keywords

caesium compounds; laser beam effects; nonlinear optics; optical losses; optical materials; CsB₃O₅; crystal quality; laser-induced damage threshold; nonlinear optical crystal; optical loss; self flux solutions; top-seeded solution growth; Cooling; Crystalline materials; Crystals; Light scattering; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical losses; Optical scattering; Solids; Temperature; Nonlinear optical materials; Top-seeded solution growth;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3829-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3830-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292220

Filename

5292220