Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a compound rubidium zinc germanate nonlinear optical crystal with a chemical formula of Rb2ZnGe2O6;
The second purpose of the invention is to provide a preparation method for synthesizing a compound rubidium zinc germanate by adopting a solid phase reaction method and growing a rubidium zinc germanate nonlinear optical crystal by adopting a high-temperature melt method;
the third purpose of the invention is to provide the application of the rubidium zinc germanate nonlinear optical device.
The technical scheme for realizing the purpose is as follows:
the chemical formula of the compound zinc-rubidium germanate provided by the invention is Rb2ZnGe2O6(ii) a Uniformly mixing and fully grinding raw materials of a rubidium-containing compound, a zinc-containing compound and a germanium-containing compound, placing the raw materials in a muffle furnace, pre-burning at low temperature to remove moisture and gas in the raw materials, heating and calcining, taking out and grinding for multiple times during the heating and calcining, and continuously calcining to obtain a compound, namely, zinc-rubidium germanate;
the rubidium-containing compound comprises at least one of rubidium oxide, rubidium carbonate, rubidium bicarbonate, rubidium sulfate, rubidium hydroxide or rubidium salt;
the zinc-containing compound is at least one of zinc oxide or zinc salt; the zinc salt comprises at least one of zinc chloride, zinc nitrate, zinc oxalate and zinc sulfate;
the germanium-containing compound is at least one of germanium oxide or germanium salt; the germanium salt comprises at least one of germanium chloride, germanium bromide, germanium nitrate, germanium oxalate, germanium carbonate, germanium bicarbonate, and germanium sulfate.
The zinc-rubidium germanate compound can be prepared according to the following chemical reaction formula by adopting a solid-phase reaction method:
1)Rb2CO3+ZnO+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+CO2↑
2)2RbHCO3+ZnO+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+H2O↑+2CO2↑
3)2RbNO3+ZnO+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+2NO2↑+0.5O2↑
4)2Rb(OH)+ZnO+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+H2O↑+
5)2Rb2(SO4)+2ZnO+4GeO2→2Rb2ZnGe2O6+2SO2↑+O2↑
6)Rb2O+ZnO+2GeCl4+2O2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+4Cl2↑
7)2RbF+ZnO+2GeO2+0.5O2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+F2↑
8)2RbCl+ZnO+2GeO2+0.5O2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+Cl2↑
9)2RbBr+ZnO+2GeO2+0.5O2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+Br2↑
10)Rb2O+ZnO+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6
11)2Rb2(C2O4)+2ZnO+4GeO2→2Rb2ZnGe2O6+4CO↑+O2↑
12)Rb2CO3+Zn(NO3)2+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+CO2↑+2NO2↑+0.5O2↑
13)Rb2O+Zn(NO3)2+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+2NO2↑+0.5O2↑
14)2RbNO3+Zn(NO3)2+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+4NO2↑+O2↑
15)2Rb(OH)+Zn(NO3)2+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+2NO2↑+H2O↑+O2↑
16)2RbHCO3+Zn(NO3)2+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+H2O↑+2CO2↑+2NO2↑+0.5O2↑
17)Rb2CO3+Zn(Cl)2+0.5O2+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+CO2↑+Cl2↑
18)Rb2CO3+ZnSO4+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+CO2↑+SO2↑+0.5O2↑
the invention provides a zinc-rubidium germanate nonlinear optical crystal, the chemical formula of the compound is Rb
2ZnGe
2O
6Molecular weight 238.74, not containing a center of symmetry, belonging to the orthorhombic system, space group C222
1Cell parameter of
The ultraviolet cut-off edge is 315nm, and the product has stable property and is not deliquescent.
The invention provides a preparation method of rubidium zinc germanate nonlinear optical crystal, which adopts a molten salt growth method to grow the rubidium zinc germanate nonlinear optical crystal, and the specific growth scheme is as follows:
a. uniformly mixing the compound zinc-rubidium germanate single-phase polycrystalline powder with a fluxing agent, heating the mixture to the temperature of 850-;
or directly heating a mixture of the rubidium-containing compound, the zinc-containing compound and the germanium-containing compound or a mixture of the rubidium-containing compound, the zinc-containing compound, the germanium-containing compound and a fluxing agent to 1150 ℃ at a temperature rise rate of 1-100 ℃/h, keeping the temperature for not less than 24 hours to obtain a mixed melt, and then cooling to 1000 ℃ at a temperature of 600 ℃, wherein the molar ratio of the rubidium-containing compound, the zinc-containing compound and the germanium-containing compound to the fluxing agent is 1:1:2: 0-20;
the fluxing agent is primarily a self fluxing agent, such as Rb2CO3、Rb2O、RbOH、RbF、RbCl、GeO2Rubidium salt, germanium salt or composite adjuvantFluxes, e.g. Rb2CO3-GeO2、Rb2O-GeO2、RbF-GeO2、RbCl-GeO2、Rb2CO3-TeO2、Rb2O-TeO2、RbF-TeO2、RbCl-TeO2、GeO2-TeO2、GeO2-TeO2-Rb2O、GeO2-TeO2-Rb2CO3One or more of (a).
The compound zinc-rubidium germanate single-phase polycrystalline powder is prepared by adopting a solid-phase synthesis method, and comprises the following steps of mixing a rubidium-containing compound, a zinc-containing compound and a germanium-containing compound, preparing zinc-rubidium germanate by adopting a solid-phase reaction method, uniformly mixing raw materials of the rubidium-containing compound, the zinc-containing compound and the germanium-containing compound, grinding, placing the mixture into a Pt crucible and placing the Pt crucible into a muffle furnace, pre-burning to remove moisture and gas in the raw materials, heating to the temperature of 500-850 ℃, taking out the mixture for grinding for many times and continuing to calcine, wherein the calcining time is not less than 72 hours, and cooling to the room temperature to obtain the compound zinc-rubidium germanate single-phase polycrystalline powder.
b. B, preparing zinc germanate rubidium seed crystals, namely slowly cooling the mixed melt obtained in the step a to room temperature at the speed of 0.5-10 ℃/h, and spontaneously crystallizing to obtain the zinc germanate rubidium seed crystals;
c. placing the Pt crucible containing the mixed melt prepared in the step a into a crystal growth furnace, fixing the seed crystal obtained in the step b on a seed crystal rod, putting the seed crystal above the liquid level from top to bottom, preheating the seed crystal for 10-30 minutes, putting the seed crystal on the liquid level of the melt when the temperature is 5-10 ℃ higher than the saturation point, keeping the temperature for 5-10 minutes to remove impurities on the surface of the seed crystal, and then reducing the temperature to the saturation point at the cooling rate of 1-10 ℃/min;
d. and slowly cooling at the speed of 1-5 ℃/day, growing at the rotating speed of 5-50rpm of the seed rod, after the crystal grows to the required size, lifting the crystal to be 1cm above the liquid level, cooling to the room temperature at the speed of 10-100 ℃/h, and finally opening a hearth to take out the crystal to obtain the rubidium zinc germanate nonlinear optical crystal.
The fluxing agent Rb2CO3-GeO2In the system of Rb2CO3With GeO2The molar ratio of (A) to (B) is 1-4: 2-6; rb2O-GeO2In the system of Rb2O and GeO2The molar ratio of (A) to (B) is 1-4: 2-6; RbF-GeO2RbF and GeO in the system2The molar ratio of (A) to (B) is 1-6: 2-4; RbCl-GeO2RbCl and GeO in the system2The molar ratio of (A) to (B) is 1-6: 2-4; rb2CO3-TeO2In the system of Rb2CO3And TeO2The molar ratio of (A) to (B) is 1-3: 2-6; rb2O-TeO2In the system of Rb2O and TeO2The molar ratio of (A) to (B) is 1-3: 2-6; RbF-TeO2RbF and TeO in the system2The molar ratio of (1-8) to (2-4); RbCl-TeO2RbCl and TeO in the system2The molar ratio of (1-8) to (2-4); GeO2-TeO2GeO in the system2And TeO2The molar ratio of (A) to (B) is 1-3: 2-6; GeO2-TeO2-Rb2CO3GeO in the system2And TeO2And Rb2CO3The molar ratio of (1-3: 2-4: 2-6); GeO2-TeO2-Rb2GeO in O system2And TeO2And Rb2The molar ratio of O is 1-3:2-4: 2-6;
the chemical formula of the zinc rubidium germanate nonlinear optical crystal prepared by the invention is Rb
2ZnGe
2O
6Molecular weight 238.74, not containing a center of symmetry, belonging to the orthorhombic system, space group C222
1Cell parameter of
The ultraviolet cut-off edge is 315nm, and the thermal stability is excellent.
Because Rb is used in the process of growing the rubidium zinc germanate nonlinear optical crystal2CO3、Rb2O、RbOH、RbF、RbCl、GeO2Rubidium or germanium salts, self-fluxing agents or composite fluxing agents, e.g. Rb2CO3-GeO2、Rb2O-GeO2、RbF-GeO2、RbCl-GeO2、Rb2CO3-TeO2、Rb2O-TeO2、RbF-TeO2、RbCl-TeO2、GeO2-TeO2,GeO2-TeO2-Rb2O、GeO2-TeO2-Rb2CO3And the like, target crystals with larger sizes are easily obtained; the obtained crystal has the advantages of excellent thermal stability, wider light transmission range, moderate hardness, stable physical and chemical properties and the like. The compound rubidium zinc germanate obtained by the method can be used for preparing a frequency doubling device, and at room temperature, a Nd-YAG Q-switched laser light source is adopted, infrared light with the incident wavelength of 1064nm is incident, and green laser with the wavelength of 532nm can be output.
Detailed Description
The invention is described in detail below with reference to the following figures and examples:
example 1:
according to the reaction formula: rb2CO3+ZnO+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+CO2↓ [ O ] synthetic compound Rb2ZnGe2O6;
Will Rb2CO3ZnO and GeO2Weighing according to the molar ratio of 1:1:2, putting into a mortar, uniformly mixing and grinding, and then putting into an opening with the diameter of 60mm multiplied by 60mmPlacing the corundum crucible in a muffle furnace, slowly heating to 350 ℃ for calcination, keeping the temperature for 24 hours to remove moisture and gas, heating to 750 ℃ for calcination for 24 hours, taking out the corundum crucible, grinding, placing the corundum crucible in the muffle furnace, heating to 800 ℃ for calcination for not less than 48 hours to prepare compound zinc rubidium germanate single-phase polycrystalline powder, and analyzing by using powder X-ray diffraction test, wherein the X-ray spectrogram of the obtained sample powder and zinc rubidium Rb germanate2ZnGe2O6The theoretical X-ray spectrograms obtained from the single crystal structure are consistent, and refer to the attached figure 1;
the prepared compound of zinc germanate, rubidium and Rb
2ZnGe
2O
6Single-phase polycrystalline powder and fluxing agent RbF-GeO
2With a molar ratio Rb
2ZnGe
2O
6:RbF-GeO
21:3, wherein RbF and GeO
2The molar ratio of the Pt filaments to the Pt filaments is 4:1, uniformly mixing, pressing, putting into a Pt crucible with the diameter of 60mm multiplied by 60mm, heating the mixed raw materials to 850 ℃ at the heating rate of 10-100 ℃/h, keeping the temperature for not less than 24 hours to uniformly mix the melt, putting the Pt filaments into the liquid level, and then cooling to induce spontaneous crystallization; the crystal has the chemical formula of Rb
2ZnGe
2O
6Molecular weight 238.74, not containing a center of symmetry, belonging to the orthorhombic system, space group C222
1Cell parameter of
The ultraviolet cut-off edge is 315nm, and the product has stable property and is not deliquescent, see figure 2 and figure 3.
Slowly cooling the melt at the speed of 1-5 ℃/h to obtain zinc germanate rubidium seed crystals;
growing crystals in a compound melt: subjecting Rb obtained by spontaneous crystallization to2ZnGe2O6Fixing seed crystal on seed crystal rod by platinum wire, preheating seed crystal 1-2cm above liquid surface, immersing seed crystal below liquid surface at 5-10 deg.C above saturation point, maintaining for 5-10 min to remove surface impurities, and rapidly cooling to saturation point;
Cooling at a rate of 1-3 deg.C/day with seed rod rotation speed of 5-50rpm, cooling to room temperature at a rate of 10-50 deg.C/hr for crystal extraction liquid level 1cm above, and taking out crystal to obtain Rb2ZnGe2O6And (4) crystals.
The rubidium carbonate used as the raw material in the reaction formula may be replaced by other rubidium-containing salts such as rubidium oxide, rubidium chloride, rubidium bromide, rubidium nitrate, rubidium oxalate, rubidium hydroxide, rubidium bicarbonate or rubidium sulfate, etc., the zinc oxide may be replaced by other zinc-containing salts such as zinc chloride, zinc nitrate, zinc oxalate or zinc sulfate, etc., and the germanium oxide may be replaced by other germanium salts.
Example 2:
according to the reaction formula: 2RbNO3+ZnO+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+2NO2↑+0.5O2↓ [ O ] synthetic compound Rb2ZnGe2O6;
Converting RbNO3ZnO and GeO2Directly weighing raw materials according to the mol ratio of 2:1:2, and mixing the weighed raw materials with a fluxing agent Rb2O-GeO2Mixing according to a molar ratio of 1:3, wherein Rb is2O and GeO2The molar ratio of the Pt filament to the Pt filament is 4:1, the mixture is put into a platinum crucible with the diameter of 60mm multiplied by 60mm, the temperature is raised to 950 ℃, the constant temperature is kept for not less than 24 hours, the melt is uniformly mixed, the Pt filament is added, and then the temperature is reduced to induce spontaneous crystallization;
slowly cooling at the cooling rate of 1-5 ℃/h, and spontaneously crystallizing to obtain zinc germanate rubidium seed crystals;
growing crystals in a compound melt: subjecting Rb obtained by spontaneous crystallization to2ZnGe2O6Using small crystal grains as seed crystals, fixing the seed crystals on a seed crystal rod by using a platinum wire, firstly placing the seed crystals above the liquid level for preheating treatment at a position of 1-2cm, then immersing the seed crystals below the liquid level when the temperature is 5-10 ℃ higher than the saturation point, keeping for 5-10 minutes to remove surface impurities, and then quickly cooling to the saturation point temperature;
cooling at a rate of 1-3 deg.C/day with seed rod rotation speed of 5-50rpm, removing liquid surface of the crystal after crystal growth, and cooling to room temperature at a rate of 10-50 deg.C/hTaking out the crystal from the furnace to obtain Rb2ZnGe2O6And (4) crystals.
The rubidium nitrate used as the raw material in the reaction formula may be replaced by other rubidium-containing salts such as rubidium oxide, rubidium chloride, rubidium bromide, rubidium carbonate, rubidium oxalate, rubidium hydroxide, rubidium bicarbonate or rubidium sulfate, etc., the zinc oxide may be replaced by other zinc-containing salts such as zinc chloride, zinc nitrate, zinc oxalate or zinc sulfate, etc., and the germanium oxide may be replaced by other germanium salts.
Example 3:
according to the reaction formula: 2Rb (OH) + ZnO +2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+H2O ↓syntheticcompound Rb2ZnGe2O6;
Rb (OH), ZnO and GeO2Directly weighing raw materials according to the mol ratio of 2:1:2, and mixing the weighed raw materials with a fluxing agent RbF-TeO2Mixing according to the mol ratio of 1:3, wherein RbF and TeO2The molar ratio of the Pt filament to the Pt filament is 3:1, the mixture is put into a platinum crucible with the diameter of 60mm multiplied by 60mm, the temperature is raised to 900 ℃, the constant temperature is kept for not less than 24 hours, the melt is uniformly mixed, the Pt filament is added, and then the temperature is reduced to induce spontaneous crystallization;
slowly cooling the melt at the speed of 1-5 ℃/h to obtain zinc germanate rubidium seed crystals;
growing crystals in a compound melt: subjecting Rb obtained by spontaneous crystallization to2ZnGe2O6Using small crystal grains as seed crystals, fixing the seed crystals on a seed crystal rod by using a platinum wire, firstly placing the seed crystals above the liquid level for preheating treatment at a position of 1-2cm, then immersing the seed crystals below the liquid level when the temperature is 5-10 ℃ higher than the saturation point, keeping for 5-10 minutes to remove surface impurities, and then quickly cooling to the saturation point temperature;
cooling at a rate of 1-3 deg.C/day, rotating the seed rod at 5-50rpm, removing the crystal liquid surface after crystal growth, cooling to room temperature at a rate of 10-50 deg.C/hr, and taking out the crystal from the furnace to obtain Rb2ZnGe2O6And (4) crystals.
The rubidium hydroxide as the raw material in the reaction formula may be replaced by other rubidium-containing salts such as rubidium oxide, rubidium chloride, rubidium bromide, rubidium carbonate, rubidium nitrate, rubidium oxalate, rubidium bicarbonate, and rubidium sulfate, the zinc oxide may be replaced by other zinc-containing salts such as zinc chloride, zinc nitrate, zinc oxalate, and zinc sulfate, and the germanium oxide may be replaced by other germanium salts.
Example 4:
according to the reaction formula: 2Rb2SO4+2ZnO+4GeO2→2Rb2ZnGe2O6+2SO2↑+O2↓ [ O ] synthetic compound Rb2ZnGe2O6;
Will Rb2(SO4),ZnO,GeO2Directly weighing raw materials according to the mol ratio of 1:1:2, and mixing the weighed raw materials with a fluxing agent GeO2-TeO2Mixing according to a molar ratio of 1:3, wherein GeO is2And TeO2The molar ratio of the Pt filament to the Pt filament is 1:4, the mixture is put into a platinum crucible with the diameter of 60mm multiplied by 60mm, the temperature is raised to 900 ℃, the constant temperature is kept for not less than 24 hours, the melt is uniformly mixed, the Pt filament is added, and then the temperature is reduced to induce spontaneous crystallization;
slowly cooling the melt at the speed of 1-5 ℃/h to obtain zinc germanate rubidium seed crystals;
growing crystals in a compound melt: subjecting Rb obtained by spontaneous crystallization to2ZnGe2O6Using small crystal grains as seed crystals, fixing the seed crystals on a seed crystal rod by using a platinum wire, firstly placing the seed crystals above the liquid level for preheating treatment at a position of 1-2cm, then immersing the seed crystals below the liquid level at a temperature of 5 ℃ higher than the saturation point, keeping for 10 minutes to remove surface impurities, and then rapidly cooling to the saturation temperature of 850 ℃;
cooling at a rate of 1-3 deg.C/day, rotating the seed rod at 5-50rpm, removing the crystal liquid surface after crystal growth, cooling to room temperature at a rate of 10-50 deg.C/hr, and taking out the crystal from the furnace to obtain Rb2ZnGe2O6And (4) crystals.
The raw material rubidium sulfate in the reaction formula can be replaced by other rubidium-containing salts such as rubidium oxide, rubidium chloride, rubidium bromide, rubidium carbonate, rubidium nitrate, rubidium oxalate, rubidium bicarbonate or rubidium hydroxide, etc., zinc oxide can be replaced by other zinc-containing salts such as zinc chloride, zinc nitrate, zinc oxalate or zinc sulfate, etc., and germanium oxide can be replaced by other germanium salts.
Example 5:
according to the reaction formula: 2RbCl + ZnO +2GeO2+0.5O2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+Cl2↓ [ O ] synthetic compound Rb2ZnGe2O6;
Mixing RbCl, ZnO and GeO2Directly weighing raw materials according to the mol ratio of 2:1:2, and mixing the weighed raw materials with a fluxing agent RbF-TeO2Uniformly mixing according to the molar ratio of 1:2, wherein RbF and TeO are2The molar ratio of the Pt filament to the Pt filament is 3:1, the mixture is put into a platinum crucible with the diameter of 60mm multiplied by 60mm, the temperature is raised to 850 ℃, the constant temperature is kept for not less than 24 hours, the melt is uniformly mixed, and the Pt filament is put into the crucible at the same time, and then the temperature is reduced to induce spontaneous crystallization;
slowly cooling the melt at the speed of 1-5 ℃/h to obtain zinc germanate rubidium seed crystals;
growing crystals in a compound melt: subjecting Rb obtained by spontaneous crystallization to2ZnGe2O6Using small crystal grains as seed crystals, fixing the seed crystals on a seed crystal rod by using a platinum wire, firstly placing the seed crystals above the liquid level for preheating treatment at a position of 1-2cm, then immersing the seed crystals below the liquid level when the temperature is 5-10 ℃ higher than the saturation point, keeping for 5-10 minutes to remove surface impurities, and then quickly cooling to the saturation point temperature;
cooling at a rate of 1-3 deg.C/day, rotating the seed rod at 5-50rpm, removing the crystal liquid surface after crystal growth, cooling to room temperature at a rate of 10-50 deg.C/hr, and taking out the crystal from the furnace to obtain Rb2ZnGe2O6And (4) crystals.
The rubidium chloride used as raw material in the reaction formula may be replaced by other rubidium-containing salts such as rubidium oxide, rubidium bromide, rubidium carbonate, rubidium nitrate, rubidium oxalate, rubidium bicarbonate, rubidium hydroxide, and rubidium sulfate, the zinc oxide may be replaced by other zinc-containing salts such as zinc chloride, zinc nitrate, zinc oxalate, and zinc sulfate, and the germanium oxide may be replaced by other germanium salts.
Example 6:
according to the reaction formula: 2RbBr + ZnO +2GeO2+0.5O2→Rb2ZnGe2O6+Br2↓ [ O ] synthetic compound Rb2ZnGe2O6;
Mixing RbBr, ZnO and GeO2Directly weighing raw materials according to the mol ratio of 2:1:2, and mixing the weighed raw materials with a fluxing agent RbF-TeO2Uniformly mixing according to the molar ratio of 1:2, wherein RbF and TeO are2The molar ratio of the Pt filament to the Pt filament is 3:1, the mixture is put into a platinum crucible with the diameter of 60mm multiplied by 60mm, the temperature is raised to 850 ℃, the constant temperature is kept for not less than 24 hours, the melt is uniformly mixed, the Pt filament is added, and then the temperature is reduced to induce spontaneous crystallization;
slowly cooling the melt at the speed of 1-5 ℃/h to obtain zinc germanate rubidium seed crystals;
growing crystals in a compound melt: subjecting Rb obtained by spontaneous crystallization to2ZnGe2O6Using small crystal grains as seed crystals, fixing the seed crystals on a seed crystal rod by using a platinum wire, firstly placing the seed crystals above the liquid level for preheating treatment at a position of 1-2cm, then immersing the seed crystals below the liquid level when the temperature is 5-10 ℃ higher than the saturation point, keeping for 5-10 minutes to remove surface impurities, and then quickly cooling to the saturation point temperature;
cooling at a rate of 1-3 deg.C/day, rotating the seed rod at 5-50rpm, removing the crystal liquid surface after crystal growth, cooling to room temperature at a rate of 10-50 deg.C/hr, and taking out the crystal from the furnace to obtain Rb2ZnGe2O6And (4) crystals.
The rubidium bromide used as the raw material in the reaction formula may be replaced by other rubidium-containing salts such as rubidium oxide, rubidium chloride, rubidium carbonate, rubidium nitrate, rubidium oxalate, rubidium bicarbonate, rubidium hydroxide, and rubidium sulfate, the zinc oxide may be replaced by other zinc-containing salts such as zinc chloride, zinc nitrate, zinc oxalate, and zinc sulfate, and the germanium oxide may be replaced by other germanium salts.
Example 7:
according to the reaction formula: rb2O+ZnO+2GeO2→Rb2ZnGe2O6Synthesis of Compound Rb2ZnGe2O6;
Will Rb2O, ZnO and GeO2Directly weighing raw materials according to the mol ratio of 1:1:2, and mixing the weighed raw materials with a fluxing agent GeO2-TeO2-Rb2Mixing O at a molar ratio of 1:1, wherein GeO2And TeO2And Rb2The molar ratio of O is 1:2:2, the mixture is put into a platinum crucible with the diameter of 60mm multiplied by 60mm, the temperature is raised to 950 ℃, the melt is uniformly mixed, meanwhile, Pt filaments are put in, and then the temperature is reduced to induce spontaneous crystallization;
slowly cooling the melt at the speed of 1-5 ℃/h to obtain zinc germanate rubidium seed crystals;
growing crystals in a compound melt: subjecting Rb obtained by spontaneous crystallization to2ZnGe2O6Using small crystal grains as seed crystals, fixing the seed crystals on a seed crystal rod by using a platinum wire, firstly placing the seed crystals above the liquid level for preheating treatment at a position of 1-2cm, then immersing the seed crystals below the liquid level when the temperature is 5-10 ℃ higher than the saturation point, keeping for 5-10 minutes to remove surface impurities, and then quickly cooling to the saturation point temperature;
cooling at a rate of 1-3 deg.C/day, rotating the seed rod at 5-50rpm, removing the crystal liquid surface after crystal growth, cooling to room temperature at a rate of 10-50 deg.C/hr, and taking out the crystal from the furnace to obtain Rb2ZnGe2O6And (4) crystals.
The rubidium oxide as the raw material in the reaction formula may be replaced by other rubidium-containing salts such as rubidium chloride, rubidium bromide, rubidium carbonate, rubidium nitrate, rubidium oxalate, rubidium bicarbonate, rubidium hydroxide, and rubidium sulfate, the zinc oxide may be replaced by other zinc-containing salts such as zinc chloride, zinc nitrate, zinc oxalate, and zinc sulfate, and the germanium oxide may be replaced by other germanium salts.
Example 8:
with Rb2ZnGe2O6Crystal preparation of nonlinear optics:
rb obtained in examples 1 to 72ZnGe2O6The nonlinear optical crystal is processed according to the crystallography data and the required size, angle and thickness, and the light-passing surface is polished, so that the nonlinear optical crystal can be used as a nonlinear optical device.
Fixing the obtained crystal at position 3 as shown in FIG. 4, and using a Q-switched Nd-YAG laser as light source at room temperature to emit infrared light with wavelength of 1064nm and infrared light beam 2 with wavelength of 1064nm to emit Rb2ZnGe2O6After crystallizationGreen frequency doubling light with the wavelength of 532nm is generated, the emergent light beam 4 contains infrared light with the wavelength of 1064nm and green light with the wavelength of 532nm, and green laser with the wavelength of 532nm is obtained after passing through the filter 5.