Ultraviolet optical parametric generation in CsLiB/sub 6/O/sub 10/

Summary form only given. CsLiB/sub 6/O/sub 10/ (CLBO) is a relatively new nonlinear optical crystal reported by Mori et al. The optical properties of CLBO are intermediate between BBO and LBO. However the greatest merit of CLBO is that it can be more readily grown than BBO and be grown from congruent or near congruent melts at exceptionally fast growth rates. The advantages of CLBO over LBO for VUV light generation are the larger birefringence, small walk-off and high optical damage threshold. We report the generation of picosecond radiation, widely tunable from the violet to near infrared in CLBO by collinear type-I phase matched optical parametric generation (OPG) process pumped by the 4th harmonic of a 30-ps Nd:YAG laser.