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Abstract
Recent experiments have revealed that the order of the electro-optic (EO) effect depends on the frequency of electric field in paraelectric nanodisordered KTa1-xNbxO3 (KTN) crystal. Through the dielectric frequency spectrum under the bias electric field, enormous linear and quadratic EO effects were discovered at the resonance frequencies, which changed the perception that only the quadratic EO effect exists. Applying just a small AC electric field of 6 V/mm, the effective linear EO coefficient reached 478 pm/V at 609 kHz, and the effective quadratic EO coefficient reached 4.39*10−13m2V−2at 302 kHz. The reason why an extremely low electric field results in an enormous EO coefficient is attributed to the resonance between the polar nanoregions (PNRs) and the electric field, induced by the field-driven reorientation of free dipoles on the boundary of the PNRs. In addition, the order of EO effect depending on the frequency of electric field was attributed to the motion modes of the PNR. This finding improves the understanding of how the EO effect is caused by field-driven PNR dynamics, but also provides a basis for the development of EO devices.
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