Ultrafast terahertz gating of the polarization and giant nonlinear optical response in BiFeO3 thin films

Chen, Frank; Goodfellow, John; Liu, Shi; Grinberg, Ilya; Hoffman, Matthias; Damodaran, Anoop R.; Zhu, Yi; Zhang, Xiaohang; Takeuchi, Ichiro; Rappe, Andrew; Martin, Lane W.; Wen, Haidan; Lindenberg, Aaron M.

doi:10.1002/adma.201502975

Title: Ultrafast terahertz gating of the polarization and giant nonlinear optical response in BiFeO₃ thin films

Journal Article · Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Advanced Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201502975· OSTI ID:1212283

Chen, Frank ^[1]; Goodfellow, John ^[1]; Liu, Shi ^[2]; Grinberg, Ilya ^[2]; Hoffman, Matthias ^[3]; Damodaran, Anoop R. ^[4]; Zhu, Yi ^[5]; Zhang, Xiaohang ^[6]; Takeuchi, Ichiro ^[6]; Rappe, Andrew ^[2]; Martin, Lane W. ^[7]; Wen, Haidan ^[5]; Lindenberg, Aaron M. ^[1]

SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

In this article, terahertz pulses are applied as an all-optical bias to ferroelectric thin-film BiFeO₃ while monitoring the time-dependent ferroelectric polarization through its nonlinear optical response. Modulations in the intensity of the second harmonic light generated by the film correspond to on–off ratios of 220 × gateable on femtosecond timescales. Polarization modulations comparable to the built-in static polarization are observed.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1212283

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1245025

Report Number(s):: SLAC-PUB-16380

Journal Information:: Advanced Materials, Vol. 27, Issue 41; ISSN 0935-9648

Publisher:: WileyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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