Crystal growth and frequency conversion of BaMgF4 single crystal by temperature gradient technique

Crystal growth and electronic structure of low-temperature phase SrMgF4

“…Detailed information on the efficient methods of halide charge preparation and growth set up can be found elsewhere [15][16][17]30,[36][37][38]. The main problem is to avoid oxide and hydroxide contaminations.…”

“…These crystals possess specific structural and bonding effects, nonlinear optical characteristics and a wide transparency window from the vacuum violet to mid-infrared range [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. Moreover, fluorides are efficient hosts for rare-earth dopants and the materials are widely applied in the laser technique and creation of nanophotonical phosphors [18].…”

“…Moreover, fluorides are efficient hosts for rare-earth dopants and the materials are widely applied in the laser technique and creation of nanophotonical phosphors [18]. For the recent years, several nonlinear optical fluorides have been considered for frequency conversion in the infrared spectral range [7,8,11,17,[19][20][21].…”