Laser control of free-carrier density in solids through field-enhanced multiphonon tunneling recombination Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Enhancement of multiphonon tunneling recombination of free carriers in strong laser fields is shown to offer a mechanism whereby ultrafast carrier-density dynamics in a semiconductor can be controlled by properly shaped laser pulses. This regime of lasersolid interaction enables an ultrafast switching of optical and electric properties of semiconductor materials, suggesting new strategies for laser micromachining and nanomachining, optical data processing, and ultrafast plasmonics.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Zheltikov, A. M., Shneider, M. N., Voronin, A. A., & Miles, R. B.

citation count

  • 8

complete list of authors

  • Zheltikov, AM||Shneider, MN||Voronin, AA||Miles, RB

publication date

  • February 2011