Abstract
Structural modulations have been recently found to cause some unusual physical properties, such as superconductivity or charge density waves; however, thus-induced nonlinear optical properties are rare. We report herein two unprecedented incommensurately modulated nonlinear optical sulfides exhibiting phase matching behavior, A2 SnS5 (A=Ba, Sr), with the (3+1)D superspace groups P21 21 2(00γ)00s or P21 (α0γ)0, featuring different modulations of the [Sn2 S7 ]∞ belts. Remarkably, Ba2 SnS5 exhibits an excellent second harmonic generation (SHG) of 1.1 times that of the benchmark compound AgGaS2 at 1570 nm and a very large laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) of 8×AgGaS2 . Theoretical studies revealed that the structural modulations increase the distortions of the Sn/S building units by about 44 or 25 % in A2 SnS5 (A=Ba, Sr), respectively, and enhance significantly the SHG compared with α-Ba2 SnSe5 without modulation. Besides, despite the smaller Eg , the A2 SnS5 samples exhibit higher LIDTs owing to their smaller thermal expansion anisotropies (Ba2 SnS5 (1.51)<Sr2 SnS5 (2.08)<AgGaS2 (2.97)).
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