Issue 32, 2017

Crystal growth and optical properties of a UV nonlinear optical material KSrCO3F

Abstract

Large, centimeter size, single crystals of the UV nonlinear optical material KSrCO3F were successfully grown by a top seeded solution growth (TSSG) method. The morphology and quality of as-grown single crystals with different rotation speeds are discussed. UV-vis-NIR transmission spectra indicate an absorption edge of 195 nm. In addition, the refractive indices were measured at five different wavelengths from 450.2 to 1062.6 nm and revealed a birefringence of 0.1117 @ 532 nm and 0.1049 @ 1064 nm. The calculated phase-matching curves indicate that KSrCO3F can achieve both type I and type II phase-matching in a broad fundamental wavelength range from 400 to 1200 nm that covers technologically important 532 and 1064 nm radiation. To determine the individual non-linear optical coefficients, Maker-fringe measurements were performed. A value of d22 = 0.50 pm V−1 was measured. Finally, using a 6 ns Nd:YAG laser operating at 15 Hz, a laser damage threshold (LDT) of over 700 MW cm−2 was measured. Our results indicate that single crystal KSrCO3F is an excellent UV second-order nonlinear optical material.

Graphical abstract: Crystal growth and optical properties of a UV nonlinear optical material KSrCO3F

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 Jun 2017
Accepted
10 Jul 2017
First published
10 Jul 2017

CrystEngComm, 2017,19, 4742-4748

Crystal growth and optical properties of a UV nonlinear optical material KSrCO3F

W. Zhang and P. S. Halasyamani, CrystEngComm, 2017, 19, 4742 DOI: 10.1039/C7CE01097D

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