Optics Express 2011-01-31

Femtosecond crystallographic experiment in wide-bandgap LiF crystal.

Hatem Dachraoui, Christian Oberer, Ulrich Heinzmann

文献索引：Opt. Express 19(3) , 2797-804, (2011)

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摘要

We report a femtosecond crystallographic study of the dependence of the free-carries generation to the alignment of a crystalline sample to the laser polarization. The probe pulse transmission exhibits a π/2 modulation that is shown to be correlated with the direction dependence of the effective electron mass. This observation suggests that nonlinear ionization is the first channel for free electron generation during the laser pulse. Moreover, the temporal evolution of the probe pulse transmission indicates the dominance of the avalanche ionization and that nonlinear ionization provides the initial seed electrons for avalanche."