Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-28-2018
Disciplines
Condensed Matter Physics | Optics | Physics | Semiconductor and Optical Materials
Abstract
Transient transmission oscillations in X-cut and Z-cut congruent, iron-doped, and magnesium-doped lithium niobate samples were measured using 50 fs, 800 nm, 0.5 nJ pulses from a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser in an optical pump–probe system. Several Raman-active oscillation modes excited by these pulses were observed as changes in the transmitted probe intensity versus time delay between the pump and probe pulses. The samples were rotated to determine how the incident polarization of the pump pulses affects the mode excitations. The observed Raman-active oscillations correspond to previously reported symmetry modes measured with traditional, continuous-wave, Raman spectroscopy using the same scattering geometry. In addition, a polariton mode and other, previously unreported, lower-frequency modes were observed in each of the samples. The transmission intensity data for each sample were fit successfully to a superposition of sinusoidal functions with exponentially decaying amplitudes.
Copyright Statement
This accepted manuscript has been published in a revised form in Journal of Materials Research at https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2018.414. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © Materials Research Society 2018.
Recommended Citation
Crossman BJ, Taft GJ. 2018. Transient transmission oscillations in doped and undoped lithium niobate induced by near-infrared femtosecond pulses. Journal of Materials Research 33(24): 4207-4214.
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