The primary goal of this review is to present a clear chemical perspective of borates in order
to stimulate and facilitate the discovery of new borate-based optical materials. These …

Crystals with mixed anions refer to inorganic salts containing at least two types of anions or
anionic groups, and these anions can be Q 2−(Q= O, S, Se, Te) and X−(X= F, Cl, Br, I), and …

Nonlinear optical materials are essential for the development of solid-state lasers.
KBe2BO3F2 (KBBF) is a unique nonlinear optical material for generation of deep-ultraviolet …

Deep ultraviolet (absorption edge< 200 nm, band gap> 6.2 eV) nonlinear optical (NLO)
materials are of current interest owing to their technological applications and materials …

Exploring new materials that meet urgent needs via advanced paradigms is still a challenge.
Herein, aiming at deep-ultraviolet optical functional materials with targeted properties …

A chemical cosubstitution strategy was implemented to design potential ultraviolet (UV) and
deep-UV nonlinear optical (NLO) materials. Taking the classic β-BaB2O4 as a maternal …

Metal borate halides refer to the metal borates containing additional halogen anions (ie, F,
Cl, Br or I). In recent years, motivated by the well-known high performance nonlinear optical …

Second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals functioning in the ultraviolet (UV) and deep-
ultraviolet (deep-UV) regions are critically important as frequency conversion materials for …

Mid-IR nonlinear optical (NLO) materials are of great importance in modern laser frequency
conversion technology and optical parametric oscillator processes. However, the …

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 …