Time-resolved observation of coherent phonons by the Franz-Keldysh effect

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Cho, GC
Bakker, HJ
Dekorsy, T
Kurz, H
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[1] Institut für Halbleitertechnik II, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, D-52056 Aachen
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10.1103/PhysRevB.53.6904
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T [工业技术];
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We report on the time-resolved observation of coherent optical phonons in GaAs by the Franz-Keldysh effect. This effect leads to a modulation of the optical interband transitions with a nonlinear dependence on the macroscopic electric field associated with the coherent phonons. We find that the nonlinear electro-optic effect forms a far more efficient detection mechanism for coherent phonons than the linear electro-optic effect near the band gap.
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