Reflectivity oscillations of fs-laser excited Bismuth: Excitation of coherent phonons

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6261 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Boschetto, Davide ^a   Gamaly, Eugene G ^b   Rode, Andrei V ^b   Glijer, David ^a   Garl, Thomas ^a   Albert, Olivier ^a   Rousse, Antoine ^a   Etchepare, Jean ^a  

^a ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bi reflectivity; Electron phonon coupling; Excitation of coherent phonons; Perturbation of inter atomic potential; Ultra fast laser solid interactions

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRONS; LASER ABLATION; OSCILLATIONS; PHONONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

BI REFLECTIVITY; ELECTRON-PHONON COUPLING; EXCITATION OF COHERENT PHONONS; PERTURBATION OF INTER-ATOMIC POTENTIAL; ULTRA-FAST LASER-SOLID INTERACTIONS;

LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

EID: 33747373578     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.669618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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