Journal Articles (Review Article) Physical Review Materials Year : 2022

Nonlinear optical response of ferroelectric oxides: First-principles calculations within the time and frequency domains

Abstract

The second and third order nonlinear susceptibilities of the ferroelectric oxides LiNbO 3 , LiTaO 3 , and KNbO 3 are calculated from first principles. Two distinct methodologies are compared, one approach is based on a perturbative approach within the frequency-domain, another on the timeevolution of the electric polarization. The frequency dependence of the second harmonic coefficients of the ferroelectric phase of LiNbO 3 calculated within the two approaches is in excellent agreement. This is further validated by experimental data for LiNbO 3 and LiTaO 3 , measured for an incident range of photon energies between 0.78 eV and 1.6 eV. The real-time based approach is furthermore employed to estimate the third order nonlinear susceptibilities of all investigated ferroelectric oxides. We further show that the quasiparticle effects, considered by means of a scissors-shift in combination with the the computationally efficient independent particle approximation, result in a shift all spectral features towards higher energies and decrease the magnitude of the optical nonlinearities. The energy of the main resonances in the hyperpolarizabilities suggests that the spectra can be understood by multi-photon adsorption within the fundamental bandgap for all investigated materials.
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hal-03704579 , version 1 (25-06-2022)

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Christof Dues, Marius J Müller, Sangam Chatterjee, Claudio Attaccalite, Simone Sanna. Nonlinear optical response of ferroelectric oxides: First-principles calculations within the time and frequency domains. Physical Review Materials, 2022, 6, pp.065202. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.065202⟩. ⟨hal-03704579⟩
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