“…III F 6 , where Me II stands for calcium, strontium or cadmium and Me III for aluminum, gallium, vanadium, chromium or iron) has been published more than thirty years ago [1]. In such a broad time range, colquiriites like LiCaAlF 6 (LiCAF), LiSrAlF 6 (LiSAF), LiSrGaF 6 (LiSGAF) and mixed crystals too, like LiSr x Ca 1-x AlF 6 (LiSCAF) [2] have been widely investigated both as laser crystals with Cr 3+ [3] and Ce 3+ -doping [4] and as undoped materials for UV windows [5] owing to their wide transparency range.…”