Application of Photoreactive Barium Titanate (BaTiO₃) Beam Fanning to the Photothermal Mirror Technique: An Experimental Analysis

Author： Zanuto Vitor Santaella Capeloto Otávio Augusto Lukasievicz Gustavo Vinicius Bassi Herculano Leandro Silva Malacarne Luis Carlos Astrath Nelson Guilherme Castelli Bialkowski Stephen Edward

Publisher： Society for Applied Spectroscopy

E-ISSN： 1943-3530|69|7|794-801

ISSN： 0003-7028

Source： Applied Spectroscopy, Vol.69, Iss.7, 2015-07, pp. : 794-801

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Abstract

An adaptive spatial filter is used as an optical novelty filter to detect photothermal mirror (PM) signals in high absorbing materials using continuous wave laser excitation. The optical novelty filter uses an optical beam-fanning limiter based on single domain barium titanate (BaTiO₃), cut and poled 45° relative to the c-axis. The optical novelty filter approach relaxes the requirement for high sample surface smoothness because the effect aperture adapts to the surface, reducing the stationary background from the optical signal and provides a means of developing the photothermal mirror signal. Time-dependent probe laser phase shifts due to photothermal surface deformation pass through the optical novelty filter and are detected as an intensity increase over the stationary or “mundane” signal. Experimental studies are performed using four well-characterized metals using both the conventional photothermal mirror and optical novelty filter apparatuses in order to understand the complicated signal behavior. Signal behavior is analyzed in different excitation intervals using pseudo-chopped sample excitation with different duty cycles. Optical novelty filter signals show fast response for changes in the spatial beam profile followed by long relaxation time. Reasons for the optical novelty filter response are described.