Abstract
Birefringent materials are of great importance in optical communication and the laser industry, as they can modulate the polarization of light. Limited by their transparency range, few birefringent materials, except BaB2O4 (BBO), can be practically used in the deep ultraviolet (UV) region. However, BBO suffers from a phase transition and does not have enough transparency in the deep UV region. By introducing the relatively small alkali metal Na+ cation and the F- anion to keep the favorable structural features of BBO, we report a new birefringent crystal Na3Ba2(B3O6)2F (NBBF), which has the desirable optical properties. NBBF not only maintains the large birefringence (= no - ne = 0.2554-0.0750 from 175 nm to 3.35 m) and extends its UV cutoff edge to 175 nm (14 nm shorter than BBO) but also eliminates the phase transition and has the lowest growth temperature (820 °C) among birefringent materials. These results demonstrate that NBBF is an attractive candidate for the next generation of deep UV birefringent materials.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 523-529 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Crystal Growth and Design |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 7 2015 |
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Na3Ba2(B3O6)2F : Next Generation of Deep-Ultraviolet Birefringent Materials. / Zhang, Hui; Zhang, Min; Pan, Shilie; Yang, Zhihua; Wang, Zheng; Bian, Qiang; Hou, Xueling; Yu, Hongwei; Zhang, Fangfang; Wu, Kui; Yang, Feng; Peng, Qinjun; Xu, Zuyan; Chang, Kelvin B.; Poeppelmeier, Kenneth R.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Na3Ba2(B3O6)2F
T2 - Next Generation of Deep-Ultraviolet Birefringent Materials
AU - Zhang, Hui
AU - Zhang, Min
AU - Pan, Shilie
AU - Yang, Zhihua
AU - Wang, Zheng
AU - Bian, Qiang
AU - Hou, Xueling
AU - Yu, Hongwei
AU - Zhang, Fangfang
AU - Wu, Kui
AU - Yang, Feng
AU - Peng, Qinjun
AU - Xu, Zuyan
AU - Chang, Kelvin B.
AU - Poeppelmeier, Kenneth R
PY - 2015/1/7
Y1 - 2015/1/7
N2 - Birefringent materials are of great importance in optical communication and the laser industry, as they can modulate the polarization of light. Limited by their transparency range, few birefringent materials, except BaB2O4 (BBO), can be practically used in the deep ultraviolet (UV) region. However, BBO suffers from a phase transition and does not have enough transparency in the deep UV region. By introducing the relatively small alkali metal Na+ cation and the F- anion to keep the favorable structural features of BBO, we report a new birefringent crystal Na3Ba2(B3O6)2F (NBBF), which has the desirable optical properties. NBBF not only maintains the large birefringence (= no - ne = 0.2554-0.0750 from 175 nm to 3.35 m) and extends its UV cutoff edge to 175 nm (14 nm shorter than BBO) but also eliminates the phase transition and has the lowest growth temperature (820 °C) among birefringent materials. These results demonstrate that NBBF is an attractive candidate for the next generation of deep UV birefringent materials.
AB - Birefringent materials are of great importance in optical communication and the laser industry, as they can modulate the polarization of light. Limited by their transparency range, few birefringent materials, except BaB2O4 (BBO), can be practically used in the deep ultraviolet (UV) region. However, BBO suffers from a phase transition and does not have enough transparency in the deep UV region. By introducing the relatively small alkali metal Na+ cation and the F- anion to keep the favorable structural features of BBO, we report a new birefringent crystal Na3Ba2(B3O6)2F (NBBF), which has the desirable optical properties. NBBF not only maintains the large birefringence (= no - ne = 0.2554-0.0750 from 175 nm to 3.35 m) and extends its UV cutoff edge to 175 nm (14 nm shorter than BBO) but also eliminates the phase transition and has the lowest growth temperature (820 °C) among birefringent materials. These results demonstrate that NBBF is an attractive candidate for the next generation of deep UV birefringent materials.
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U2 - 10.1021/cg5016912
DO - 10.1021/cg5016912
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SP - 523
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JO - Crystal Growth and Design
JF - Crystal Growth and Design
SN - 1528-7483
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