Investigations on the growth aspects And optical properties of cesium Triborate single crystals For UV generation

Abstract

Lasers find a vast number of applications such as fiber optic newlineCommunication micromarking and microsurgery industrial drilling and newlineWelding remote sensing and range finding to just mention a few Ultraviolet newline UV radiation is reviewed as a clean source for materials synthesis and newlineProcessing Excimer lasers are the useful source of intense UV radiation newlineOperation of these lasers involved high voltage discharge of corrosive gas A newlinecompact maintenance free all solid state alternative is in high demand and its newlinecharacteristic features are advantageous in both research and industrial newlineapplications Examples of these are high efficiency good beam quality and newlinethe possibility of Q switching A serious limitation of a conventional solidstate newlinelaser is that it cannot have an arbitrary wavelength Nonlinear optics newlineprovides a solution to this problem by the use of parametric processes in newlinenonlinear materials Thus, radiation of other frequencies than those produced newlinedirectly by lasers can be obtained NLO crystals that generate visible and UV newlinelights effectively are important for the realization of a high power all solidstate newlineUV light source newline newline newline newline newline