Coherent phonon induced optical modulation in semiconductors at terahertz frequencies
| Autor: | Muneaki Hase, Anca Monia Constantinescu, Masayuki Katsuragawa, Hrvoje Petek |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Condensed Matter - Materials Science
Materials science Phonon Terahertz radiation Band gap Attosecond General Physics and Astronomy Physics::Optics Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) FOS: Physical sciences 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Laser 01 natural sciences 3. Good health law.invention Amplitude law Excited state 0103 physical sciences Atomic physics 010306 general physics 0210 nano-technology Phase modulation |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1309.3363 |
| Popis: | The coherent modulation of electronic and vibrational nonlinearities in atoms and molecular gases by intense few-cycle pulses has been used for high-harmonic generation in the soft X-ray and attosecond regime, as well as for Raman frequency combs that span multiple octaves from the Terahertz to Petahertz frequency regions. In principle, similar high-order nonlinear processes can be excited efficiently in solids and liquids on account of their high nonlinear polarizability densities. In this paper, we demonstrate the phononic modulation of the optical index of Si and GaAs for excitation and probing near their direct band gaps, respectively at ~3.4 eV and ~3.0 eV. The large amplitude coherent longitudinal optical polarization due to the excitation of longitudinal optical (LO) phonon of Si (001) and LO phonon-plasmon coupled modes in GaAs (001) excited by 10-fs laser pulses induces effective amplitude and phase modulation of the reflected probe light. The combined action of the amplitude and phase modulation in Si and GaAs generates phonon frequency combs with more than 100 and 60 THz bandwidth, respectively. Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures |
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