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Periodic domain inversion in single crystal barium titanate-on-insulator thin film
Optics · Submitted 1 Jul 2024
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The authors' main claim The successful realization of periodic poling in BTO thin film unlocks the potential for highly efficient nonlinear processes under quasi-phase-matching that seemed far-fetched with prior polycrystalline BTO thin films which predominantly relied on efficiency-limited random or non-phase matching conditions and is a key step towards integration of BTO photonic devices.
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We report experimentally achieving first-ever electric field periodic poling of single crystal barium titanate (BTO, or BaTiO3) thin film on insulator. Owing to the outstanding optical nonlinearities of BTO, this result is a key step towards achieving quasi-phase-matching in BTO. We first grow the BTO thin film on a dysprosium scandate substrate using pulsed laser deposition with a thin layer of strontium ruthenate later serving as the bottom electrode for poling. We present characterization of the BTO thin film using x-ray diffraction and piezo-response force microscopy to clearly demonstrate single crystal, single domain growth of the film which enables the desired periodic poling. To investigate the poling quality, we apply both non-destructive piezo force response microscopy and destructive etching-assisted scanning electron microscopy and we show that high quality, uniform and intransient poling with 50 % duty cycle and periods ranging from 2 {\mu}m to 10 {\mu}m is achieved. The successful realization of periodic poling in BTO thin film unlocks the potential for highly efficient nonlinear processes under quasi-phase-matching that seemed far-fetched with prior polycrystalline BTO thin films which predominantly relied on efficiency-limited random or non-phase matching conditions and is a key step towards integration of BTO photonic devices.
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| s0 | We report experimentally achieving first-ever electric field periodic poling of single crystal barium titanate (BTO, or BaTiO3) thin film on insulator. | contribution 0.91 | 0.97 | 0.77 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | Owing to the outstanding optical nonlinearities of BTO, this result is a key step towards achieving quasi-phase-matching in BTO. | interpretation 0.98 | 0.27 | 0.19 | asserted 0.98 |
| s2 | We first grow the BTO thin film on a dysprosium scandate substrate using pulsed laser deposition with a thin layer of strontium ruthenate later serving as the bottom electrode for poling. | method 1.00 | 0.96 | 0.03 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | We present characterization of the BTO thin film using x-ray diffraction and piezo-response force microscopy to clearly demonstrate single crystal, single domain growth of the film which enables the desired periodic poling. | method 0.67 | 0.96 | 0.05 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | To investigate the poling quality, we apply both non-destructive piezo force response microscopy and destructive etching-assisted scanning electron microscopy and we show that high quality, uniform and intransient poling with 50 % duty cycle and periods ranging from 2 {\mu}m to 10 {\mu}m is achieved. | result 0.94 | 0.97 | 0.20 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | The successful realization of periodic poling in BTO thin film unlocks the potential for highly efficient nonlinear processes under quasi-phase-matching that seemed far-fetched with prior polycrystalline BTO thin films which predominantly relied on efficiency-limited random or non-phase matching conditions and is a key step towards integration of BTO photonic devices. | interpretation 1.00 | 0.50 | 0.73 | asserted 0.81 |
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We report experimentally achieving first-ever electric field periodic poling of single crystal barium titanate (BTO, or BaTiO3) thin film on insulator. Owing to the outstanding optical nonlinearities of BTO, this result is a key step towards achieving quasi-phase-matching in BTO. We first grow the BTO thin film on a dysprosium scandate substrate using pulsed laser deposition with a thin layer of strontium ruthenate later serving as the bottom electrode for poling. We present characterization of the BTO thin film using x-ray diffraction and piezo-response force microscopy to clearly demonstrate single crystal, single domain growth of the film which enables the desired periodic poling. To investigate the poling quality, we apply both non-destructive piezo force response microscopy and destructive etching-assisted scanning electron microscopy and we show that high quality, uniform and intransient poling with 50 % duty cycle and periods ranging from 2 {\mu}m to 10 {\mu}m is achieved. The successful realization of periodic poling in BTO thin film unlocks the potential for highly efficient nonlinear processes under quasi-phase-matching that seemed far-fetched with prior polycrystalline BTO thin films which predominantly relied on efficiency-limited random or non-phase matching conditions and is a key step towards integration of BTO photonic devices.
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