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{{chembox
| IUPACName = caesium oxide—lithium oxide—boron oxide (1/1/6)
| Section2 = {{Chembox Properties
|   Formula = CsLiB<sub>6</sub>O<sub>10</sub>
|   MolarMass = 364.71 g/mol
  }}
| Section3 = {{Chembox Structure
|   CrystalStruct = tetragonal, point group 4m2
|   LattConst_a = 1049.4 pm
|   LattConst_c = 893.9 pm
  }}
}}
'''CsLiB<sub>6</sub>O<sub>10</sub>''' ('''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&nbsp;nm).

==Nonlinear optical properties==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!Harmonics wavelength<br>(nm)
!Phase-matching angle<br>(°)
!Calculated ''d<sub>eff</sub>''<br>(pm/V)
!Walk-off angle<br>(°)
!Angular bandwidth<br>(mrad&middot;cm)
!Spectral bandwidth<br>(nm&middot;cm)
!Temperature bandwidth<br>(°C&middot;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==
*{{citation | first1 = Y. | last1 = Mori | first2 = I. | last2 = Kuroda | first3 = S. | last3 = Nakajima | first4 = T. | last4 = Sasaki | first5 = S. | last5 = Nakai | journal = Appl. Phys. Lett. | volume = 67 | pages = 1818 | year = 1995}}.
*{{citation | first1 = Y. | last1 = Mori | first2 = Y. K. | last2 = Yap | first3 = M. | last3 = Inagaki | first4 = S. | last4 = Nakajima | first5 = A. | last5 = Taguchi | first6 = W. L. | last6 = Zhou | first7 = T. | last7 = Sasaki | title = Advanced Solid-State Lasers | series = Topics in Optics and Photonics 1 | publisher = Optical Society of America | location = Washington, D.C. | year = 1996 | page = 341 | isbn = 1557521794}}.
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==Further reading==
*{{citation | first1 = D. | last1 = Gerstenberger | first2 = T. | last2 = Trautmann | first3 = M. | last3 = Bowers | title = Noncritically phase-matched second-harmonic generation in cesium lithium borate | url = http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-28-14-1242 | journal = Opt. Lett. | volume = 28 | pages = 1242–44 | year = 2003}}.
*{{citation | inventor1-last = Sasaki | inventor1-first = Takatomo | inventor2-last = Mori | inventor2-first = Yusuke | assignee = Japan Science and Technology Corporation | title = Cesium-lithium borate crystal | country-code = US | patent-number = 5998313 | year = 1999}}.

==External links==
*[http://www.mt-berlin.com/frames_cryst/descriptions/clbo.htm Non-linear Crystal Cesium Lithium Borate (CsLiB<sub>6</sub>O<sub>10</sub> or CLBO)] from MolTech GmbH

[[Category:Caesium compounds]]
[[Category:Lithium compounds]]
[[Category:Borates]]
[[Category:Nonlinear optical materials]]

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