Optical properties of KDP and DKDP crystals grown at high rates

Some problems of KD*P crystal use for frequency conversion (FC) of iodine laser radiation

“…The well-advanced high-rate growth technology [1] permits to grow crystals as rectangular (or cylindrical) blocks with (101) orientation. This geometry is illustrated in fig.…”

“…USING OF "SKEW" ELEMENTS "Skew" FC elements fabricated in lAP RAS are used now in two highpower iodine lasers available in: 1 Fig. 6 The second harmonic generation efficiency dependence on of KH2(lx)D2x"O4 were calculated in the entire the first harmonic radiation intensity: i -KDP, ooe, x -KDP, oee, range of ?…”

“…The use of effective methods of crystal growing [1] permits to reduce essentially the price of crystals, but does not solve all the problems. The present paper deals with the ways of effective crystal employment in FC systems.…”

Computational analysis of three-dimensional flow and mass transfer in a non-standard configuration for growth of a KDP crystal

“…At these rates, it will take a long time to get a crystal of the size required for the industry. In the 80s of 20th century, some rapid growth methods more than 10 mm/day [1,2] have been developed. Compared with the crystals gained by traditional methods, the rapidly grown crystals can also have high optical quality [3,4], but their sizes did not exceed 15-20 cm.…”

<title>Rapid growth of large-scale (40-55 cm) KDP crystals</title>

“…Several rapid growth techniques [4][5][6][7] have been developed in recent years to grow KDP-type crystals at growth rates more than an order of magnitude larger than those obtained with the traditional technique. It was shown that rapidly-grown crystals can have as high optical quality as those typically grown by the traditional technique [3,8,9], but, until now, the size of rapidly-grown crystals did not exceed 15-20 cm.…”