“…This property, together with high optical nonlinearity and excellent physical characteristics and chemical stability, make YAB extremely interesting for many applications. Doped with various rare-earth and transition metal ions, YAB crystals are well-known phosphors, promising for use as materials for display panels, lasers, scintillators, LEDs, luminescent thermometers, and in medical imaging [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ]. YAB crystals doped with Nd 3+ [ 8 , 13 ], Yb 3+ [ 11 , 12 , 14 ], Er 3+ /Yb 3+ [ 10 ], and Yb 3+ /Tm 3+ [ 16 ] are well-known media for self-frequency doubling, self-frequency summing, and up-conversion lasers.…”