Published December 20, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Direct acoustic phonon excitation by intense and ultrashort terahertz pulses

  • 1. Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Nikolaou Plastira 100, P.O. Box 1385, Vassilika Vouton, Heraklion 71110 (Greece)

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We report on the direct and resonant excitation of acoustic phonons in an AlGaAs intrinsic semiconductor using intense coherent and single cycle terahertz pulses created by two-color femtosecond laser pulse filamentation in air. While the electrons are left unperturbed, we follow the lattice dynamics with time-delayed optical photons tuned to the interband transition.

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Journal Title
Applied Physics Letters
Journal Volume
97
Journal Issue
25
Journal Page Range
p. 251904-251904.3
ISSN
0003-6951
CODEN
APPLAB

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