Ultrafast Control of the Polarity of by Orbital Excitation as Investigated by Femtosecond Spectroscopy
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- 12 June 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Applied
- Vol. 7 (6), 064016
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.7.064016
Abstract
is a perovskite-type cobalt oxide with a polar structure. We investigate the dynamics of its polar state by using photoexcitation with femtosecond visible and terahertz pulses. The intensity of the second-harmonic light, caused by a polar structure without inversion symmetry, is enhanced by more than 50% by irradiating the terahertz pulse showing an ultrafast response following the femtosecond terahertz pulse. By contrast, it is suppressed by more than 60% by exciting visible light with a 100-fs pulse width at room temperature. These results suggest not only an important role of the orbital excitation in the ion but also a key to improving the nonlinear optical response, e.g., a figure of merit in nonlinear crystals on the time scale of a femtosecond.
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Funding Information
- Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology
- Japan Science and Technology Agency
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP15H02103, JP16K05397, JP16H04000)
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