1 Crystal growth and physical characterization of monoclinic Li 3 Lu 3 Ba 2 (MoO 4 ) 8 . A spectrally broadened disordered crystal for ultrafast mode- locked lasers Xiumei Han, RocíoCalderón-Villajos, Fátima Esteban-Betegón, Concepción Cascales and Carlos Zaldo* Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. c/ Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 3. 28049 Madrid. Spain. AndrzejJezowski and PiotrStachowiak Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2 Okolna Str., 50-422 Wroclaw, Poland * cezaldo@icmm.csic.es