Nonlinear Lithium Triborate (LiB3O5 or LBO) single crystals possess such unique features, as wide transparency range from VUV to IR, high optical damage threshold, high effective non-linear coefficients and non-critical phase matching availability, as well as very small walk-off angle. Nonlinear single crystal LBO boules are grown with an improved high temperature flux method.

APPLICATIONS of nonlinear single crystal Lithium Triborate (LiB3O5 or LBO):

- SHG from high-power laser: Nd:YAG, Ti: Sapphire, Alexandrite, Cu-vapor lasers
- THG of Nd:YAG, Nd:YLF, Ti:Sapphire and Alexandrite lasers
- Tunable laser systems, using UV (308, 355 nm), visible (532 nm) or IR (1064 nm) for pumping in OPO, OPA processes
- Phase matching cut off: at fundamental 554 nm for SHG, at 794 nm for THG, down to 160 nm for SFM
- Autocorrelation measurements of ultrashort optical pulses