Growth of large and high quality CsLiB6O10 crystals from self-flux solutions for high resistance against UV laser-induced degradation

Crystal growth of CsLiB6O10 (CLBO) was conducted by using various self-flux solutions. We evaluated the degradation under 266 nm irradiation, with measured intensity of scattered green light. The CLBO crystal grown from Li-poor composition had the highest resistance to the laser UV-induced degradati...

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Published in:Applied physics express 2019-07, Vol.12 (7)
Main Authors: Murai, Ryota, Fukuhara, Taishi, Ando, Go, Tanaka, Yasunori, Takahashi, Yoshinori, Matsumoto, Kazuhisa, Adachi, Hiroaki, Maruyama, Mihoko, Imanishi, Masayuki, Kato, Kosaku, Nakajima, Makoto, Mori, Yusuke, Yoshimura, Masashi
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Summary:Crystal growth of CsLiB6O10 (CLBO) was conducted by using various self-flux solutions. We evaluated the degradation under 266 nm irradiation, with measured intensity of scattered green light. The CLBO crystal grown from Li-poor composition had the highest resistance to the laser UV-induced degradation compared with the other composition. In addition, the scattering of the green laser light was low. Furthermore, we also grew a larger CLBO crystal without cracks and inclusions from Li-poor flux composition using a larger crucible, which shows that this method is highly suitable for growing large and high quality CLBO crystals.
ISSN:1882-0778
1882-0786
DOI:10.7567/1882-0786/ab25aa