Photonics Research, 2016, 4 (3): 03000A22, Published Online: Sep. 29, 2016
Time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy of charge carrier dynamics in the chalcogenide glass As30Se30Te40 [Invited] Download: 629次
Spectroscopy Spectroscopy terahertz terahertz Spectroscopy Spectroscopy ultrafast ultrafast Glass and other amorphous materials Glass and other amorphous materials Nonlinear optical materials Nonlinear optical materials Photoconductive materials Photoconductive materials
Abstract
Broadband (1.6–18 THz) terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) and time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy (TRTS) were performed on a 54 μm thick chalcogenide glass (As30Se30Te40) sample with a two-color laser-induced air plasma THz system in transmission and reflection modes, respectively. Two absorption bands at 2–3 and 5–8 THz were observed. TRTS reveals an ultrafast relaxation process of the photoinduced carrier response, well described by a rate equation model with a finite concentration of mid-bandgap trap states for self-trapped excitons. The photoinduced conductivity can be well described by the Drude–Smith conductivity model with a carrier scattering time of 12–17 fs, and we observe significant carrier localization effects. A fast refractive index change was observed 100 fs before the conductivity reached its maximum, with 2 orders of magnitude larger amplitude than expected for the optically induced THz Kerr effect, indicating that free carriers are responsible for the transient index change.
Tianwu Wang, Elena A. Romanova, Nabil Abdel-Moneim, David Furniss, Anna Loth, Zhuoqi Tang, Angela Seddon, Trevor Benson, Andrei Lavrinenko, Peter Uhd Jepsen. Time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy of charge carrier dynamics in the chalcogenide glass As30Se30Te40 [Invited][J]. Photonics Research, 2016, 4(3): 03000A22.