金属超微粒子─半导体薄膜的光学瞬态响应

利用飞秒脉冲激光和泵浦探测技术测量了金属超微粒子半导体复合薄膜ＡｇＢａＯ的瞬态光学透过率随延迟时间的变化曲线，观察到了薄膜对光的吸收漂白现象，并在不到２ｐｓ时间内恢复．该现象是薄膜中金属超微粒子内费密能级附近电子被飞秒激光脉冲激发，产生非平衡电子而经历瞬态弛豫造成的．弛豫主要包括非平衡电子越过超微粒子和周围介质的界面位垒进入周围介质，以及非平衡电子同晶格和界面的散射两种过程．超微粒子粒径的差别会引起非平衡电子弛豫时间的差别     

Cu—Ba—O薄膜在超短激光脉冲作用下的光透射率特性

用泵浦－探测技术测量了金属－介质复合薄膜Ｃｕ－Ｂａ－Ｏ的光学透射率在超短激光脉冲作用下随延迟时间的瞬态变化曲线，获得了薄膜对光的透射率迅速减小并在皮秒时间内恢复原状的实验结果。该现象是由薄膜中金属超微粒子内费米能级附近电子被飞秒激光脉冲激发所产生的非平衡态电子经历瞬态弛豫造成的。本文从理论上给出了薄膜中Ｃｕ超微粒子的电子声子相互作用常数ｇ的修正数值。     

飞秒脉冲激光加热金属薄膜的理论和实验研究

超短脉冲激光加热可应用于研究材料中载能子之间的超快相互作用,同时也广泛应用于超快激光加工.此前人们提出的双温度模型和抛物一步模型都只能用于描述超短脉冲激光加热金属薄膜后热量传递过程的特定片段.基于双温度模型和傅里叶导热定律,提出普适的理论模型可用于完整描述飞秒激光加热金属薄膜/基底时的整个热量传递过程.同时在300 K温度下,采用背面抽运-表面探测瞬态热反射法实验研究了飞秒脉冲激光加热金属薄膜的热量传递过程,理论预测曲线和实验测量结果符合较好,验证了理论模型的正确性.基于此模型测量得到了金薄膜的电子-声子 关键词： 飞秒脉冲激光 电子-声子耦合 界面热导 瞬态热反射     

Co膜中多次超快瞬态反射突变现象研究

飞秒激光泵浦瞬态热反射技术是研究金属薄膜超快动力学的有效手段,这种技术具有两大突出特点：首先,可以揭示飞秒激光激发的微观电、声子的传输过程是一个非平衡热输运过程。其次,反射率瞬态变化实验中电子运动的超短时间分辨可以用来研究热过程中电子的非平衡相互作用情况。利用磁控溅射真空镀膜技术,在玻璃衬底和硅衬底上蒸镀了不同厚度的Co单层膜,Cr,Co双层膜以及Ag,Co双层膜。利用飞秒激光瞬态反射技术研究了Co膜及其双层膜的瞬态反射率响应。结果表明,在同一厚度的Co膜样品上,施加不同的泵浦光功率时,Co膜内电子的加热时间与泵浦光功率的大小无关,均为0.1344 ps。而对于不同厚度的Co膜,电子的热化时间与薄膜厚度直接相关。此外,发现与以往研究结果不同的是,在泵浦光功率足够大时,玻璃衬底上的Co膜在飞秒激光脉冲泵浦下会出现两次或三次瞬态反射率下降现象,Co膜厚度决定了Co膜内瞬态反射率突变的次数,即Co膜内电子的超快动力学变化次数。     

飞秒激光脉冲作用熔石英的超快传热动力学研究

飞秒激光具有超短脉冲宽度、超高峰值功率的特点,飞秒激光与物质作用表现出的非线性吸收和低热扩散特性,使其在高精密微纳器件加工中有着重要的应用前景。建立了针对飞秒激光脉冲与熔石英作用的瞬态光电离以及非平衡传热的超快动力学模型。通过数值求解该模型获得了飞秒激光单脉冲作用熔石英的载流子密度和非平衡电子与声子温度的时空演化;得到了在非平衡态条件下,电声耦合时间随激光能量密度、脉冲宽度的近线性调控规律。进一步研究得到了瞬态电子热导、热容、电声耦合系数的变化规律,并对上述模拟现象进行了分析和探讨。     

基于飞秒瞬态反射/透射技术的纳米Au半透膜热效应研究

以飞秒激光放大器作为光源联合使用瞬态反射/透射实验技术研究了纳米Au半透明纳米薄膜中非平衡载能粒子的热传导过程. 在相同实验条件下, 发现该薄膜的瞬态透射和反射信号明显不同并且延迟时间在5.0–7.5 ps时瞬态透射信号的符号发生改变. 对纳米薄膜的透射和反射信号进行了对比分析, 分别使用双温模型和Crude近似进行数据模拟并拟合, 分析认为沿膜厚方向的温度梯度变化和界面热阻效应引起介电函数的变化不同, 从而引起了瞬态透射信号和反射信号的不同. 对于半透明金属纳米薄膜需要同时考虑其瞬态透射和反射影响才能得到准确的瞬态吸收结果. 随着抽运脉冲能量的增加, 可以看到上升时间约为1.0 ps, 电子-晶格弛豫时间增加.     

飞秒脉冲激光作用下金属薄膜的热弹性研究

利用双曲-双温两步热传导和热电子崩力模型,考虑到晶格温度与应变速率的耦合效应,得到了用于描述飞秒激光作用下金属薄膜热力效应的超快热弹性模型。以飞秒脉冲激光辐照金属铜薄膜为例,运用具有人工粘性和自适应步长的有限差分算法,对不同能量密度和脉冲宽度条件下薄膜体内温度场和应力场的变化规律进行了数值模拟,对比分析了电子晶格耦合系数对超快加热过程的影响。结果表明,飞秒脉冲激光辐照早期为明显的非平衡加热过程,电子温度迅速升高,而晶格温度的升高却相对较慢;激光辐照早期的热力耦合效应导致薄膜前表面附近的热应力表现为压应力,随着时间的推移,热应力由压应力转变为张应力,为激光加工和激光对抗提供了理论参考。     

时间分辨电子显微镜的可行性研究

文章从理论上分析了飞秒激光与金属阴极的相互作用过程．将飞秒激光与金属阴极产生的超短电子脉冲作为电子源，提出了一种具有时间分辨能力的电子显微镜(TREM)的概念设计．文章作者详细地研究了这种电子显微镜的可行性，并讨论了超短电子脉冲的传输和控制问题．     

飞秒激光脉冲与金属光阴极相互作用

本文从理论上分析了飞秒激光与光阴极相互作用过程，采用双温模型分析了飞秒激光脉冲辐照下金属薄膜的温度效应。通过建立一个简单的光电效应模型，获得了最佳的金属光阴极厚度，通过该模型可以发现，产生的光电流对在飞秒激光脉冲辐照下的电子温度和晶格温度有着很大的依赖关系。     

单次飞秒激光脉冲在玻璃内部产生多次微爆的研究

在入射能量不同的情况下，用近红外飞秒激光脉冲在重钡火石玻璃（ZBaF15）内部产生了色心和微爆，在熔融石英的内部产生了多次微爆现象.实验表明：入射能量较高时，色心的中间会产生微爆；在松聚焦条件下，一个飞秒激光脉冲在透明介质内会激发多次微爆.基于飞秒激光脉冲在透明介质内的自聚焦效应和自由电子等离子体的自散焦效应，理论分析了多次微爆产生的原因；也讨论了飞秒激光脉冲诱导玻璃折射率改变的机理.     

Electron-lattice kinetics of metals heated by ultrashort laser pulses

We propose a kinetic model of transient nonequilibrium phenomena in metals exposed to ultrashort laser pulses when heated electrons affect the lattice through direct electron-phonon interaction. This model describes the destruction of a metal under intense laser pumping. We derive the system of equations for the metal, which consists of hot electrons and a cold lattice. Hot electrons are described with the help of the Boltzmann equation and equation of thermoconductivity. We use the equations of motion for lattice displacements with the electron force included. The lattice deformation is estimated immediately after the laser pulse up to the time of electron temperature relaxation. An estimate shows that the ablation regime can be achieved. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 115, 149–157 (January 1999) Published in English in the original Russian journal. Reproduced here with stylistic changes by the Translation Editor.     

Theoretical description of ultrafast phenomena in clusters

A theoretical study of different ultrafast nonequilibrium processes taking place during and after ultrashort excitation of clusters is presented. We discuss similarities and differences for several processes involving nonequilibrium ultrafast motion of atoms and electrons. We study ultrashort relaxation of clusters in response to excitations produced by femtosecond laser pulses of different intensities. We show how different relaxation processes, such as bond breaking, melting, fragmentation, emission of atoms, or Coulomb explosion, can be induced, depending on the laser intensity and laser pulse duration. We also discuss processes involving nonequilibrium electron dynamics, such as intraband Auger decay in clusters and ultrafast electronic motion during collisions between clusters and surfaces. We show that this electron dynamics leads to Stückelberg-like oscillations of measurable quantities, such as the electron emission yield. Received: 4 April 2000 / Accepted: 6 November 2000 / Published online: 9 February 2001     

Ultrashort excitations of surface polaritons and waveguide modes in semiconductors

Polarization-dependent structures have been formed on the silicon surface under the action of femtosecond laser pulses. Some model concepts are proposed to describe changes in the response of the semiconductor surface caused by the generation of a nonequilibrium electron-hole plasma and explain the excitation of surface polaritons and waveguide modes during a femtosecond laser pulse.     

Thermal behavior of thin metal films irradiated by shaped femtosecond pulse sequences laser

A numerical solution of the two-temperature model has been performed up to the shaped femtosecond pulse sequences heated metal target. The two-temperature model is used to analyze the shaped femtosecond pulse sequences with the following major conclusions. We confirm the distinctly different results on the different shaped femtosecond pulse sequences. As the number of shaped femtosecond pulses increases, the nonequilibrium state between electrons and phonons gradually disappears, the highest transient electron temperature is lowered and the thermolization time is prolonged, the electron heat conductivity remains higher because of the effect of incubation on the electron temperature, which preserves the advantages of ultrashort lasers. The shaped femtosecond pulse sequences can increase the efficiency in ablation and micromachining.     

铁磁薄膜中圆偏振光感应的瞬态磁光Kerr峰的物理起源

使用飞秒时间分辨抽运-探测磁光Kerr光谱技术,实验研究了圆偏振光抽运面内磁化FePt和垂直磁化GdFeCo薄膜的磁化演化动力学,发现在时间延迟零点处均出现瞬态Kerr峰.分析了此Kerr峰的起源,指出此瞬态Kerr峰与铁磁性无关,可能起源于自由电子的顺磁磁化,而顺磁磁化的外磁场来自圆偏振抽运光的逆Faraday效应.基于顺磁磁化模型的计算结果支持此观点.基于此观点,逆Faraday效应感应的磁场脉冲宽度应该与激光脉冲宽度一致.     

Interferences of ultrashort free electron wave packets

Interferences of free electron wave packets generated by a pair of identical, time-delayed, femtosecond laser pulses which ionize excited atomic potassium have been observed. Two different schemes are investigated: threshold electrons produced by one-photon ionization with parallel laser polarization and above threshold ionization electrons produced by a two-photon transition with crossed laser polarization. Our results show that the temporal coherence of light pulses is transferred to free electron wave packets, thus opening the door to a whole variety of exciting experiments.     

Ultrafast dynamics of electron thermalization in gold

Time-resolved surface second-harmonic generation (SHG) is used to probe electron relaxation processes in gold following intense laser excitation at 1.55 eV. For the first time, an electron temperature ( T(e)) dependent enhancement in the SHG signal is clearly observed at T(e) above 0.7 eV, which is shown to relate to the thermalization of nonequilibrium hot electrons. Therefore, the relaxation dynamics of the transient nonequilibrium electrons in the high T(e) regime is directly resolved by monitoring the time evolution of the SHG signal.     

Generation of femtosecond X-ray pulses via laser–electron beam interaction

The generation of femtosecond X-ray pulses will have important scientific applications by enabling the direct measurement of atomic motion and structural dynamics in condensed matter on the fundamental time scale of a vibrational period. Interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with relativistic electron beams is an effective approach to generating femtosecond pulses of X-rays. In this paper we present recent results from proof-of-principle experiments in which 300 fs pulses are generated from a synchrotron storage ring by using an ultrashort optical pulse to create femtosecond time structure on the stored electron bunch. A previously demonstrated approach for generating femtosecond X-rays via Thomson scattering between terawatt laser pulses and relativistic electrons is reviewed and compared with storage-ring based schemes.     

飞秒时间分辨实验中泵浦-探测交叉相关函数的测量和时间零点的确定

飞秒激光技术的出现使得实时探测与跟踪激发态超快弛豫动力学过程成为可能,并能够给出激发态动力学过程清晰的物理图像。而在飞秒时间分辨实验中,泵浦-探测相关函数和时间零点直接影响实验结果的可靠性和准确性。本文结合飞秒激光在分子激发态超快动力学过程中的应用进展,介绍了根据实验条件和要求,在具体实验过程中泵浦-探测相关函数测量和时间零点确定的几种方法。实验中选择可见光作为泵浦光和探测光时,可以通过测定随泵浦-探测时间延迟变化的泵浦激光与探测激光的和频/差频光强来确定泵浦探测交叉相关函数和时间零点;而选择中心波长在紫外甚至真空紫外的激光脉冲作为泵浦光或探测光时,泵浦-探测交叉相关函数通常采用校正的方法测量。