Fs Spectroscopy of Phonon Emission and Absorption for A Cold Plasma in Gallium Arsenide
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21 Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 397 ©1996 Materials Research Society
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Figure 1. Reflectivity versus time at 829 nmn (open squares) and 788 nm (full squares) of bulk
GaAs crystal after irradiation with a =60 fs laser pulse at the same wavelength. The lines are the results of a non-linear fit of the data. The integral of autocorrelation signal of pump and probe is also shown. Table I. Excess Energies and Observed Time Constants for LO and Acoustic Phonon Emission at the Two Probing Wavelengths 788 nm3 and 829 nm at an Initial Carrier Density of 3 x 1017 cm" Wavelength
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The two exponentials describe the contributions of LO and acoustic phonons, respectively, whereas the third contribution, which is constant in this time scale, accounts for the thermalized carriers which have relaxed to the bottom of the band. They contribute to the optical response both for filling of the optically coupled states and bandgap renormalization. Time constants extracted with a nonlinear fitting procedure are given in Table I. The deduced values are in agreement with previous observations performed at higher excitation energies [5] . Moreover, they exhibit the correct dependence upon the related energy levels in the conduction band. Further infonnation on carrier dynamics in this regime is obtained by observing the fluence dependence of reflectivity traces at long wavelengths, i.e. close to the threshold for LO phonon emission. As an example, Figure 2 illustrates the relative reflectivity changes at 829 nm versus time for three different carrier injection regimes. All three curves exhibit a rise temporally coincident with the exciting laser pulse, as illustrated by the integral of the autocorrelation function. The decay of the signals is again mnade up by two contributions, the first being a fast decay in the = 200 fs time scale. Its amplitude progressively decreases with initial injection density. For the two higher fluence traces, the slow component shows a decay towards a constant
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