Quasi-nondegenerate pump–probe magnetooptical experiment in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure based on spectral filtration
We report on a quasi-nondegenerate pump–probe technique that is based on spectral-filtration of femtosecond laser pulses by a pair of mutually-spectrally-disjunctive commercially available interference filters. The described technique enables to obtain pump and probe pulses with wavelengths that are...
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| description | We report on a quasi-nondegenerate pump–probe technique that is based on spectral-filtration of femtosecond laser pulses by a pair of mutually-spectrally-disjunctive commercially available interference filters. The described technique enables to obtain pump and probe pulses with wavelengths that are spectrally close but distinct. These contradictory requirements, which are dictated, for example, by a suppression of stray pump photons from the probe beam in spin-sensitive magneto-optical experiments in non-magnetic semiconductors, can be fulfilled at very low cost and basically no requirement on space. Especially the second feature is important in pump–probe microscopy where collinear propagation of pump and probe pulses is dictated by utilization of a microscopic objective and where the setups are typically quite complex but suffer from a limited size of optical breadboards. Importantly, this spectral-filtration of 100 fs long laser pulses does not affect considerably the resulting time-resolution, which remains well below 500 fs. We demonstrate the practical applicability of this technique by performing spin-sensitive magnetooptical Kerr effect (MOKE) experiment in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure, where a high-mobility spin system is formed after optical injection of electrons at wavelengths close to the MOKE resonance. In particular, we studied the time- and spatial-evolutions of spin-related (MOKE) and charge-related (reflectivity) signals. We revealed that they evolve in a similar but not exactly the same way which we attributed to interplay of several electron many-body effects in GaAs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-30b083924233457dbb2d40f4821d93ef2023-08-08T15:27:35ZengIOP PublishingNew Journal of Physics1367-26302020-01-0122909306510.1088/1367-2630/abb54bQuasi-nondegenerate pump–probe magnetooptical experiment in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure based on spectral filtrationM Surýnek0L Nádvorník1E Schmoranzerová2P Němec3Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University , Ke Karlovu 3,121 16, Prague 2, Czech RepublicFaculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University , Ke Karlovu 3,121 16, Prague 2, Czech RepublicFaculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University , Ke Karlovu 3,121 16, Prague 2, Czech RepublicFaculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University , Ke Karlovu 3,121 16, Prague 2, Czech RepublicWe report on a quasi-nondegenerate pump–probe technique that is based on spectral-filtration of femtosecond laser pulses by a pair of mutually-spectrally-disjunctive commercially available interference filters. The described technique enables to obtain pump and probe pulses with wavelengths that are spectrally close but distinct. These contradictory requirements, which are dictated, for example, by a suppression of stray pump photons from the probe beam in spin-sensitive magneto-optical experiments in non-magnetic semiconductors, can be fulfilled at very low cost and basically no requirement on space. Especially the second feature is important in pump–probe microscopy where collinear propagation of pump and probe pulses is dictated by utilization of a microscopic objective and where the setups are typically quite complex but suffer from a limited size of optical breadboards. Importantly, this spectral-filtration of 100 fs long laser pulses does not affect considerably the resulting time-resolution, which remains well below 500 fs. We demonstrate the practical applicability of this technique by performing spin-sensitive magnetooptical Kerr effect (MOKE) experiment in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure, where a high-mobility spin system is formed after optical injection of electrons at wavelengths close to the MOKE resonance. In particular, we studied the time- and spatial-evolutions of spin-related (MOKE) and charge-related (reflectivity) signals. We revealed that they evolve in a similar but not exactly the same way which we attributed to interplay of several electron many-body effects in GaAs.https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/abb54bpump–probe spectroscopyspatial resolutionmagneto-optical Kerr effectspin dynamicsspectral filtration |
| spellingShingle | M Surýnek L Nádvorník E Schmoranzerová P Němec Quasi-nondegenerate pump–probe magnetooptical experiment in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure based on spectral filtration New Journal of Physics pump–probe spectroscopy spatial resolution magneto-optical Kerr effect spin dynamics spectral filtration |
| title | Quasi-nondegenerate pump–probe magnetooptical experiment in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure based on spectral filtration |
| title_full | Quasi-nondegenerate pump–probe magnetooptical experiment in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure based on spectral filtration |
| title_fullStr | Quasi-nondegenerate pump–probe magnetooptical experiment in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure based on spectral filtration |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quasi-nondegenerate pump–probe magnetooptical experiment in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure based on spectral filtration |
| title_short | Quasi-nondegenerate pump–probe magnetooptical experiment in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure based on spectral filtration |
| title_sort | quasi nondegenerate pump probe magnetooptical experiment in gaas algaas heterostructure based on spectral filtration |
| topic | pump–probe spectroscopy spatial resolution magneto-optical Kerr effect spin dynamics spectral filtration |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/abb54b |
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