Optical, spectral and phase-matching properties of BIBO, BBO and LBO crystals for optical parametric oscillation in the visible and near-infrared wavelength ranges

The phase-matching properties of BIBO, BBO and LBO crystals for optical parametric oscillators (OPO) with wavelength tuning in the visible and near infrared spectral ranges were numerically investigated. The phase-matching configurations with a pump wavelength of 520 nm that provide the largest effective nonlinearity in each crystal were considered and compared. In addition, dispersive characteristics, including the group velocity mismatch and group velocity dispersion, which are of significant importance in femtosecond OPOs, were calculated. Finally, the attainable gain bandwidths for each crystal were estimated.

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