Guili Wang, Wentian Wu, Chunxiao Li and Jiyong Yao
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Abstract
Oxychalcogenides have been highly anticipated as nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals because of their excellent optical properties. Herein, a rare-earth oxychalcogenide Eu2ZnGe2OS6 was successfully designed and synthesized. It crystallizes in the non-centrosymmetric P21m space group with highly polarized mixed-anion [GeOS3] units and exhibits an indirect band gap of 2.22 eV, a moderate second harmonic generation (SHG) response (0.4 × AGS), and phase-matching properties. Additionally, Eu2ZnGe2OS6 exhibits a significant calculated birefringence of 0.173@2090 nm. This research has enriched the rarely studied rare-earth oxychalcogenide system and provided new ideas for the design of promising IR NLO crystals.