Optical-induced absorption tunability of Barium Strontium Titanate film

Abstract The absorption tunability of 100 nm thickness of ferroelectric Barium Strontium Titanate (Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3) thin films with different densities of pumped optical field is measured by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy in the range of 0.2 THz – 1.2 THz at 19 °C. Experimental results show that the absorption coefficient of BST film is approximately at 5000 cm−1–20000 cm−1 in the range of 0.2 THz – 1.2 THz and the absorption coefficient reached up to 16% when we applied the optical field up to 600 mW. The theoretical calculations reveal that increasing photoexcitation fluences is responsible for the increasing of transmission change in the conduction current density cause the absorption coefficient varied.