Early experience photoselective vaporisation of the prostate using the 180W lithium triborate and comparison with the 120W lithium triborate laser by Nicholas A. Campbell

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Preparation and stress evolution of sol–gel SiO2 antireflective coatings for small-size anisotropic lithium triborate crystals by Bingtao Tian, Xiaodong Wang, Yanyan Niu, Jinlong Zhang, Qinghua Zhang, Zhihua Zhang, Guangming Wu, Bin Zhou, Jun Shen

“…Lithium triborate (LiB3O5, LBO) crystal is now one of the most useful nonlinear optical materials for frequency conversion of high power lasers. …”
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Synthesis and Study of Kinetic Parameters of Nanophosphor LiB3O5: Al by Parvin Kaviani, Daryoush Shahbazi-Gahrouei, Akbar Abdisaray, Jamshid Khorsandi

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Terahertz Time-Domain Polarimetry for Principal Optical Axes of Anisotropic Crystals by Alexander Mamrashev, Fedor Minakov, Nazar Nikolaev, Valery Antsygin

“…We demonstrate the practical application of the method by measuring the temperature dependence of the refractive index and the absorption coefficient of a lithium triborate crystal for three optical axes.…”
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Generation and Evaluation of an Efficient Femtosecond Green Laser by Mingyang Teng, Xianghao Meng

“…We demonstrate femtosecond ultra-stable green laser generation by an ytterbium-doped polarization-maintaining fiber laser with a 2.4 mm long lithium triborate (LBO) crystal. We generated 5.6 W of femtosecond green light at 520 nm for a fundamental power of 12 W, which corresponds to a conversion efficiency of 46.7%. …”
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Subnanosecond visible two-stage optical parametric generator and amplifier based on MgO:PPLN and LBO crystals at strong pump depletion by V. Tamulienė, G. Stanionytė, T. Latvys, J. Vengelis

“…Theoretical and experimental investigation of two-stage optical parametric generator based on magnesium oxide doped periodically poled lithium niobate (MgO:PPLN) crystal and optical parametric amplifier based on lithium triborate (LBO) crystal is presented. The first stage crystal was pumped by the subnanosecond fundamental harmonic at 1064 nm wavelength. …”
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Structural properties of lithium borate glasses doped with rare earth ions by Thomazini D., Lanciotti Jr. F., Sombra A. S. B.

“…This paper presents the study on lithium triborate glass (LBO) in the system (1-x)|3B2O3.Li2O| (x)Nb2O5 yPr3+ zYb3+ wNd3+ with 0 <= x <= 20 mol% (y, z and w in mol%). …”
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Continuous-Wave Self-Raman Vanadate Lasers Generating Versatile Visible Wavelengths by Di Li, Chien-Yen Huang, Xiu-Wei Chang, Hsing-Chih Liang, Yung-Fu Chen

“…The critical phase matchings of using the lithium triborate (LBO) crystals for sum frequency generation (SFG) and second harmonic generation (SHG) are thoroughly reviewed. …”
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Femtosecond Laser Pulses Amplification in Crystals by Razvan Dabu

“…Ultra-broad phase matching bandwidth of more than 100 nm, able to support the amplification of sub-10 fs laser pulses, are demonstrated in nonlinear crystals, such as Beta Barium Borate (BBO), Potassium Dideuterium Phosphate (DKDP), and Lithium Triborate (LBO). The advantages and drawbacks of CPA amplification in laser crystals and OPCPA in nonlinear crystals are discussed. …”
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Photoselective vaporization of the prostate in men taking clopidogrel by Daniel M.G Spernat, Tania A Hossack, Henry H Woo

“…The surgery was carried out with either an 80W KTP laser or a 120W lithium triborate laser. Results : In the peri-operative period there were no complications related to PVP. …”
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130-W picosecond green laser based on a frequency-doubled hybrid cryogenic Yb:YAG amplifier by Hong, Kyung-Han, Lai, Chien-Jen, Siddiqui, Aleem M., Kaertner, Franz X.

“…A second-harmonic conversion efficiency of 54% is achieved with a 15-mm-long noncritically phase-matched lithium triborate (LBO) crystal from a 240-W 8-ps 78-MHz pulse train at 1029 nm. …”
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Half-kilowatt high-energy third-harmonic conversion to 50 J @ 10 Hz at 343 nm by Jan Pilar, Martin Divoky, Jonathan Phillips, Martin Hanus, Petr Navratil, Ondrej Denk, Patricie Severova, Tomas Paliesek, Danielle Clarke, Martin Smrz, Thomas Butcher, Chris Edwards, Tomas Mocek

“…The laser produces high-energy ns pulses at 10 Hz repetition rate, which are frequency doubled using a type-I phase-matched lithium triborate (LBO) crystal and consequently frequency summed using a type-II phase-matched LBO crystal. …”
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Kilowatt-class high-energy frequency conversion to 95 J at 10 Hz at 515 nm by Martin Divoky, Jonathan Phillips, Jan Pilar, Martin Hanus, Petr Navratil, Ondrej Denk, Tomas Paliesek, Patricie Severova, Danielle Clarke, Martin Smrz, Thomas Butcher, Chris Edwards, John Collier, Tomas Mocek

“…We report on frequency doubling of high-energy, high repetition rate ns pulses from a cryogenically gas cooled multi-slab ytterbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet laser system, Bivoj/DiPOLE, using a type-I phase matched lithium triborate crystal. We achieved conversion to 515 nm with energy of 95 J at repetition rate of 10 Hz and conversion efficiency of 79%. …”
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High-Efficiency Nanosecond Green Laser Based on Extra-Cavity Second-Harmonic Generation of a Nd:YAG MOPA System by Hua-Yu Liu, Zi-Han Zhou, Qi Bian, Yong Bo, Yang Kou, Lei Yuan, Da-Fu Cui, Qin-Jun Peng

“…After a dual-rod double-pass amplifier, the fundamental seed power is amplified to 89.4 W with the beam quality of <italic>M²</italic> &#x003D; 1.41 and pulse duration of 56.4 ns. Using a type I lithium triborate (LiB₃O₅, LBO) crystal for second-harmonic generation (SHG), an average power of 67.4 W at 532 nm is generated with a beam quality factor of 1.31, operating at 41.8 ns of pulse duration. …”
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Efficient Continuous-Wave Eye-Safe Nd:GdVO₄/KGW Raman Laser and Sum Frequency Generation for Deep-Red Emission by Hsin-Jia Huang, Yu-Han Fang, Di Li, Chun-Ling Chen, Hsing-Chih Liang, Yung-Fu Chen

“…Furthermore, two different lithium triborate (LBO) crystals with critical phase matching were exploited to obtain deep-red emission at 714 nm via the intracavity sum frequency generation of 1341 and 1525 nm waves. …”
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High repetition rate tunable lasers by Evans, I, Evans, Ian Jason

“…CVL SHG has been demonstrated in jS-barium borate (BBO) and lithium triborate (LBO), with SHG efficiencies in excess of 18% realized for the CVL 511nm line in BBO. …”

A 172 mJ, high-energy picosecond 355 nm ultraviolet laser system at 100 Hz by Jiatong Li, Jiayu Zhang, Tiejun Ma, Yongping Yao, Runze Liang, Xue Zhou, Chunyan Jia, Shengjun Huang, Hongkun Nie, Bo Yao, Jingliang He, Baitao Zhang

“…The stimulated Raman scattering-based beam shaping technique, thermally induced birefringence compensation and 4f spatial filter-image relaying systems were used to maintain a relatively homogeneous beam intensity distribution during the amplification process. By using lithium triborate crystals for second- and third-harmonic generation (THG), a 172 mJ, approximately 56 ps, 355 nm UV laser was achieved with a THG conversion efficiency of 49%. …”
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13.4 fs, 0.1 Hz OPCPA Front End for the 100 PW-Class Laser Facility by Xinliang Wang, Xingyan Liu, Xiaoming Lu, Junchi Chen, Yingbin Long, Wenkai Li, Haidong Chen, Xun Chen, Peile Bai, Yanyan Li, Yujie Peng, Yanqi Liu, Fenxiang Wu, Cheng Wang, Zhaoyang Li, Yi Xu, Xiaoyan Liang, Yuxin Leng, Ruxin Li

“…Using 3 stages of optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) based on lithium triborate (LBO) crystals, we realized a 5.26 J/0.1 Hz amplified output with a bandwidth over 200 nm near the center wavelength of 925 nm. …”
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