This article focuses on the top-seeded solution growth (TSSG) of single crystals of the low-temperature non-centrosymmetric modification of barium borate, β-BaB2O4 (β-BBO), using a mixed solvent comprising NaBaBO3 and V2O5. We examine the linear absorption properties across a wide spectral range and nonlinear second harmonic generation (SHG) from 532 nm to 266 nm in β-BBO samples under Nd:YAG laser radiation pumping. The mean linear absorption for ordinary waves in vanadium-based crystals at wavelengths from 300 to 600 nm is found to be an order of magnitude higher than that in standard samples, measuring 0.0059 and 0.0007 cm-1, respectively. However, crystals grown from the proposed vanadium-based solution still exhibit similar SHG efficiency to standard samples. Deviations from the quadratic dependence are observed at pump power densities exceeding 20 MW/cm2, possibly attributed to temperature effects resulting from insufficient temperature stabilization.
We report results on comparative study of SHG in powder of promising nonlinear γ-Ga2S3 crystal. Digallium trisulfide powders with particle size from 20 μm to 500 μm were tested in comparison with powders of well-known LBO, BBO, KABO, KDP, and LN crystals under the pumping by 7 ns 1064 Nd:YAG laser. Laser-induced damage threshold of different powder fractions were determined. The γ-Ga2S3 shown high damage threshold and large SHG intensity: 56 times to that in LBO powder, 15 in BBO, 50 in KABO, 67 in KDP, and 3 in LN (for particle size: 20–50 μm), that renders it amongst the most promising crystal for frequency conversion of high-intense nanosecond radiation of near-IR lasers by optical rectification technique.
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