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人工晶体学报 ›› 2025, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (10): 1732-1739.DOI: 10.16553/j.cnki.issn1000-985x.2025.0162

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深紫外KBBF薄片晶体的连续波激光倍频器设计

王晓洋(), 刘丽娟   

  1. 中国科学院理化技术研究所,人工晶体研究发展中心,北京 100190
  • 收稿日期:2025-07-25 出版日期:2025-10-20 发布日期:2025-11-11
  • 作者简介:王晓洋(1967—),男,江苏省人,研究员。E-mail:xywang@mail.ipc.ac.cn
    王晓洋,中国科学院理化技术研究所研究员,博士生导师。主要从事无机光电功能材料特别是激光与非线性光学晶体的新材料探索、大尺寸晶体生长、性能表征、器件设计及应用研究。主持或作为骨干参与完成了国家自然科学基金、973计划、863计划、科技部重大研发计划、财政部仪器专项等20余项科研项目,发表学术论文200余篇。获得国家科技进步二等奖1项,国家技术发明二等奖1项。
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金面上项目(52272012);中国载人航天工程空间应用系统项目(KJZ-YY-NCL404)

Design of a Continuous-Wave Laser Frequency Doubler Using KBBF Thin-Plate Crystals

WANG Xiaoyang(), LIU Lijuan   

  1. Center for Crystal Research & Development,Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China
  • Received:2025-07-25 Online:2025-10-20 Published:2025-11-11

摘要: 深紫外激光(波长<200 nm)在光刻、角分辨光电子能谱、激光精密加工等前沿领域具有不可替代的应用价值。为实现实用化、高精度的深紫外激光输出,基于非线性光学晶体的多级倍频技术已成为最具可行性的方案,其极限性能由终端深紫外倍频晶体决定。然而,目前见诸报道的深紫外非线性晶体仅有KBBF(KBe2BO3F2)和RBBF(RbBe2BO3F2)两种,且二者均受层状生长习性限制,仅能获得毫米级厚度的薄片状晶体。针对薄片状非线性光学晶体制作倍频器件的技术挑战,传统解决方案采用在晶体两面光胶两个异质材料棱镜的耦合技术。但该方案存在固有缺陷,形成的两个异质界面引入了额外光损耗,也成为激光损伤的薄弱环节,使器件的损伤阈值比晶体下降超过一个数量级。本研究创新性地提出布儒斯特角的特殊切割方法,可在保证相位匹配的前提下,使晶体获得最大有效通光长度。这种无棱镜的倍频器件摒弃了异质棱镜结构,充分发挥非线性晶体本征的高损伤阈值特性,提高了倍频器件的总透过率,为实现高功率/连续波深紫外激光输出提供了新途径。

关键词: 非线性光学晶体; 深紫外; KBBF晶体; 连续波激光; 倍频器件; 布儒斯特切割; 薄片晶体

Abstract: Deep ultraviolet (DUV) lasers (wavelength is less than 200 nm) play an indispensable role in advanced applications such as lithography, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and micromachining. For achieving practical and high-precision DUV laser output, the cascade frequency conversion approach based on nonlinear optical crystals has emerged as the most viable solution, whose ultimate performance is determined by the terminal DUV frequency doubling crystal. However, only two DUV nonlinear crystals—KBBF (KBe2BO3F2) and RBBF (RbBe2BO3F2) have been reported to date, both constrained by layered growth habits that yield only millimeter-thick plate-like crystals. To address the technical challenges in fabricating frequency-doubling devices from such thin-plate crystals, conventional solutions employ prism coupling techniques involving optical bonding of two heterogeneous prisms to the crystal surfaces. This approach suffers from inherent limitations: the introduced heterointerfaces not only cause additional optical losses but also become vulnerable points for laser damage, reducing the device's damage threshold by over one order of magnitude compared to the crystal itself. This study innovatively proposes a specialized Brewster-angle cutting method that maximizes the effective optical path length while maintaining phase-matching conditions. By eliminating the prism structures, this prism-free frequency doubler fully exploits the intrinsic high-damage-threshold characteristics of the nonlinear crystal while improving overall transmittance, thereby providing a new pathway for high-power/continuous-wave DUV laser generation.

Key words: nonlinear optical crystal; deep ultraviolet; KBBF crystal; continuous-wave laser; frequency doubler; Brewster-angle cutting; thin-plate crystal

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