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Opt Express. 2015 Jul 27;23(15):19705-14. doi: 10.1364/OE.23.019705.

Observation of coherent phonon-plasma coupled modes in wide gap semiconductors by transmission pump-probe measurements.

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Hideyuki Kunugita, Kanji Hatashita, Yuji Ohkubo, Takashi Okada, Kazuhiro Ema

PMID: 26367628 DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.019705

Abstract

We have investigated coherent LO phonon properties in zinc-based II-VI widegap semiconductors, focusing on phonon-plasma coupled modes. By a careful treatment of the time evolution of the signals in ZnS, ZnSe, and ZnTe, we found a frequency upshift as the pump intensity increases. Using a classical coupled oscillator model, we have explained the pump intensity dependence of both the shift and the decay rates by a mixing of highly damped two-photon generated plasma. From the linear dependence between them we can estimate the photo-excited carrier mobilities, leading to a new powerful estimation method to measure the mobility.

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