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$\beta$-Barium Borate (BBO) Absorption in the 0.188-6.22 $\mu$m Range

@inproceedings{Tamovsauskas2021betaBariumB,
  title={\$\beta\$-Barium Borate (BBO) Absorption in the 0.188-6.22 \$\mu\$m Range},
  author={Gintaras Tamovsauskas},
  year={2021}
}
The crystal of -Barium Borate is widely used for nonlinear light wavelength conversion like harmonics generation and parametric amplification when pumped by the pulsed lasers and as electro-optically switched Pockels cells. Modern lasers produce hundreds of watts of average power, thus thermal effects become important. In this work, absorption of the crystal is obtained by reviewing published data, results of measurements performed by the author and data provided by the optics industry. 
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