Ultrafast formation of many-particle interactions in a photoexcited electron-hole plasma

Rupert Huber; Florian Tauser; Andreas Brodschelm; Max Bichler; Gerhard Abstreiter; Alfred Leitenstorfer

doi:10.1117/12.473201

30 May 2003 Ultrafast formation of many-particle interactions in a photoexcited electron-hole plasma

Rupert Huber, Florian Tauser, Andreas Brodschelm, Max Bichler, Gerhard Abstreiter, Alfred Leitenstorfer

Proceedings Volume 4992, Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors VII; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.473201
Event: Integrated Optoelectronics Devices, 2003, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Ultrabroadband THz spectroscopy is employed to observe how many-particle interactions build up in an extreme non-equilibrium electron-hole plasma. The plasma is photogenerated in bulk GaAs via resonant interband absorption of a 10 fs laser pulse. Subsequently, the dynamics of the complex dielectric function throughout the mid-infrared is directly monitored with uncertainty-limited temporal resolution with a single-cycle THz pulse. Field sensitive detection allows us to measure simultaneously real and imaginary part of the complex dielectric function of the plasma in the multi-THz regime. We show that collective phenomena such as Coulomb screening and plasmon scattering exhibit a delayed onset. This observation is explained in terms of the ultrafast formation of dressed quasiparticles. The time scale for this transient behavior is of the order of the inverse plasma frequency. Our findings support recent quantum kinetic calculations of the temporal evolution of the Coulomb interaction after ultrafast excitation of a dense electron-hole plasma.

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Rupert Huber, Florian Tauser, Andreas Brodschelm, Max Bichler, Gerhard Abstreiter, and Alfred Leitenstorfer "Ultrafast formation of many-particle interactions in a photoexcited electron-hole plasma", Proc. SPIE 4992, Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors VII, (30 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.473201

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