• DocumentCode
    1676637
  • Title

    Absorption bleaching in silicon via high-power terahertz pulses: Carrier dependence

  • Author

    Sharma, G. ; Al-Naib, I. ; Hafez, H. ; Morandotti, R. ; Ozaki, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Adv. Laser Light Source, Univ. du Quebec, Varennes, QC, Canada
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present optical pump / high-power THz probe measurements for undoped silicon at different optical pump fluences. We observe an absorption bleaching of intense terahertz (THz) pulses, which decreases with increasing optical pump fluence.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; optical saturable absorption; silicon; terahertz spectroscopy; absorption bleaching; carrier dependence; different optical pump fluences; high-power terahertz pulses; intense terahertz pulses; silicon; Absorption; Bleaching; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Probes; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326527