Abstract
We report hardness and Young's modulus measurements of two recently developed non-chalcopyrite, non-centrosymmetric crystals, BaGa4S7 and BaGa4Se7, which seem very promising for three-wave parametric interactions in the mid-IR part of the spectrum between 5 and 18 μm. The obtained averaged values for the hardness from nanoindentation tests, converted into Vickers hardness number, are 556 kg/mm2 for the sulphide and 336 kg/mm2 for the selenide compound, respectively. Knowledge of these values will be essential for proper polishing and fabrication of optical elements, the wide use and commercialization of these novel non-oxide nonlinear crystals, which possess a number of other advantages over classical chalcopyrites operating in the same spectral window.
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