Femtosecond time-resolved dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect

Dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect.

Excitonic Dynamical Franz-Keldysh Effect

Attosecond dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect in polycrystalline diamond.

Short, intense laser pulses can be used to access the transition regime between classical and quantum optical responses in dielectrics. In this regime, the relative roles of inter- and intraband light-driven electronic transitions remain uncertain. We applied attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy to investigate the interaction between polycrystalline diamond and a few-femtosecond infrare...

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

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 th...

Piezoelectric Franz–Keldysh effect in strained GaInN/GaN heterostructures

Pseudomorphic Ga12xInxN/GaN single heterostructures in the composition range 0,x,0.2 have been investigated by photoreflectance and photoluminescence spectroscopy. Strong Franz–Keldysh oscillations near the band gap of the ternary film are observed and attributed to a large constant piezoelectric field of up to 0.63 MV/cm. This allows an accurate determination of the electric field. A significa...