Abstract
One of the most common experimental approaches to studying the relaxation of carriers in semiconductors on the femtosecond time scale is pump-and-probe spectroscopy. Essentially, it consists in exciting nonequilibrium carriers by an intense femtosecond pump pulse and then probing the density distributions with a weak time-delayed probe pulse. Comparison of such pump-and-probe spectra with theoretical simulations of carrier kinetics provides important information for understanding relaxation mechanisms that govern ultrafast carrier dynamics.1
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Stanton, C.J., Kuznetsov, A.V., Kim, C.S. (1994). Optical Generation and Detection of Carriers in Ultrafast Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Semiconductors. In: Phillips, R.T. (eds) Coherent Optical Interactions in Semiconductors. NATO ASI Series, vol 330. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9748-0_20
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