DETERMINATION OF THE INTERBAND AND THE FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION CONSTANTS IN SILICON AT HIGH-LEVEL PHOTOINJECTION

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SVANTESSON, KG
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[1] Phys. Dept., Royal Inst. of Technol.
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10.1088/0022-3727/12/3/012
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Describes and experimental method together with an analysis of the experimental data, which makes it possible to determine the interband absorption coefficient, the free carrier absorption cross-section and the surface reflectivity in the same experimental set-up. The experiments were performed on samples of pure silicon at T=294K using a pulsed Nd-YAG laser, which gave pulses of 10-15 ns duration at lambda =1.06 mu m. The maximum carrier concentration achieved was about 3*1019 cm-3. Effects of laser beam inhomogeneities are also discussed and included in the absorption model.
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