Abstract
Nonlinear optical (NLO) materials are the vital components of future photoelectric technologies as they can broaden the tunable wavelength range supplied by common laser sources. However, the necessary prerequisites for a practical NLO material are rather strict. Accordingly, considerable efforts have been focused on finding potential NLO materials. Here we report two asymmetric beryllium-free borates Pna21- and Pbar 62m-Ba3Mg3(BO3)3F3 featuring NLO-favorable 2∞[Mg3O2F3(BO3)2] layered structures. The reversible phase transition among two polymorphs was demonstrated by multiple experimental tests. The optical measurements reveal that Pna21-Ba3Mg3(BO3)3F3 possesses the optical properties required for ultraviolet NLO applications. Remarkably, Pna21-Ba3Mg3(BO3)3F3 has a large laser damage threshold, a deep-ultraviolet cutoff edge, a favorable anisotropic thermal expansion as well as the capacity of insolubility in water. These optical properties can be comparable or superior to that of commercial NLO material β-BaB2O4, which make Pna21-Ba3Mg3(BO3)3F3 a promising ultraviolet NLO material.
Highlights
Nonlinear optical (NLO) materials are the vital components of future photoelectric technologies as they can broaden the tunable wavelength range supplied by common laser sources
Nonlinear optical (NLO) materials applied from ultraviolet (UV) to infrared spectral ranges are the vital components of future photoelectric technologies[1,2,3,4]
Borates with planar [BO3]3− anionic groups have always been at the center of the search for NLO materials with large second-harmonic generation (SHG) response and birefringence, which mainly benefits from the π-conjugated molecular orbitals of [BO3]3− units[19,20,21,22]
Summary
Nonlinear optical (NLO) materials are the vital components of future photoelectric technologies as they can broaden the tunable wavelength range supplied by common laser sources. Pna21-Ba3Mg3(BO3)3F3 has a large laser damage threshold, a deep-ultraviolet cutoff edge, a favorable anisotropic thermal expansion as well as the capacity of insolubility in water. These optical properties can be comparable or superior to that of commercial NLO material β-BaB2O4, which make Pna21-Ba3Mg3(BO3)3F3 a promising ultraviolet NLO material. 200 nm) NLO crystals, an effective design tactic is to introduce fluorine into the structural framing of borate system based on the following considerations. We use the strategy of chemical cosubstitution to make structural modifications based on the classic NLO materials with the goal of obtaining new molecular structures contain NLO-favorable layered structures[32,33]
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