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The Recent Development of Borate SF-Conversion Laser Crystal

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Structure-Property Relationships in Non-Linear Optical Crystals I

Part of the book series: Structure and Bonding ((STRUCTURE,volume 144))

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As a laser host, Borates possess favorable chemical and physical characteristics as well as higher damnification threshold. Especially, Borates usually have higher nonlinear optical efficiency resulted from its B–O structure. When doped with active ions, Borates can serve as a self-frequency conversion multifunction laser medium. For example, rare-earth ions and Cr3+-doped RX3(BO3)4, especially GdAl3(BO3)4 and TmAl3(BO3)4, are typical self-frequency conversion multifunction laser crystals. After wide surveys of known research on the growth, crystal structure, and properties including thermal, optical, and spectral characteristics and laser property, this chapter reviews the recent advances in the development of these crystals. Self-frequency conversion laser technology including the self-frequency doubling, self-difference-frequency mixing and self-sum-frequency mixing methods were dealt with. As a result, the laser outputs with high efficiency at various wavelengths ranged from UV to IR have been achieved.

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Some works of this chapter were supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China (No.50902129, 61078076, 91122033), Major Projects from FJIRSM (SZD09001), the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KJCX2-EW-H03), Science and Technology Plan Major Project of Fujian Province of China (Grant No. 2010I0015).

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    Chaoyang Tu, Zhaojie Zhu, Zhenyu You, Jianfu Li & Yan Wang

  2. Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Luminescents, UMR CNRS 5620, Université Claude Bernard-Lyon1, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France

    Alain Brenier

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Tu, C., Zhu, Z., You, Z., Li, J., Wang, Y., Brenier, A. (2012). The Recent Development of Borate SF-Conversion Laser Crystal. In: Wu, XT., Chen, L. (eds) Structure-Property Relationships in Non-Linear Optical Crystals I. Structure and Bonding, vol 144. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/430_2011_66

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