Caesium lithium borate

Caesium lithium borate
IUPAC name caesium oxide—lithium oxide—boron oxide (1/1/6)
Properties
Molecular formula	CsLiB6O10
Molar mass	364.71 g/mol
Structure
Crystal structure	tetragonal, point group 4m2
Lattice constant	a = 1049.4 pm, c = 893.9 pm
Y lithium borate (verify) (what is: Y/N?) Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)
Infobox references

CsLiB₆O₁₀ (Caesium lithium borate, CLBO) is a non-linear crystal for ultraviolet applications and generates the 4th and 5th harmonics of the Nd:YAG fundamental laser wavelength (1064 nm).

Nonlinear optical properties of CLBO

Harmonics wavelength (nm)	Phase-matching angle (°)	Calculated deff (pm/V)	Walk-off angle (°)	Angular bandwidth (mrad·cm)	Spectral bandwidth (nm·cm)	Temperature bandwidth (°C·cm)
266	61.6	0.84	1.83	0.49	0.13	8.3
213	67.3	0.87	1.69	0.42	0.16	5.1

References

• Mori, Y.; Kuroda, I.; Nakajima, S.; Sasaki, T.; Nakai, S. (1995), "New nonlinear optical crystal: Cesium lithium borate", Appl. Phys. Lett. 67 (13): 1818, doi:10.1063/1.115413 .
• Mori, Y.; Yap, Y. K.; Inagaki, M.; Nakajima, S.; Taguchi, A.; Zhou, W. L.; Sasaki, T. (1996), Advanced Solid-State Lasers, Topics in Optics and Photonics 1, Washington, D.C.: Optical Society of America, p. 341, ISBN 1557521794 .

Further reading

• Gerstenberger, D.; Trautmann, T.; Bowers, M. (2003), "Noncritically phase-matched second-harmonic generation in cesium lithium borate", Opt. Lett. 28 (14): 1242–44, doi:10.1364/OL.28.001242, http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-28-14-1242 .
• US 5998313, Sasaki, Takatomo & Yusuke Mori .

External links

• Non-linear Crystal Cesium Lithium Borate (CsLiB₆O₁₀ or CLBO) from MolTech GmbH