Nanosecond dynamics of a gallium mirror's light-induced reflectivity change
Nanosecond dynamics of a gallium mirror's light-induced reflectivity change
Transient pump-probe optical reflectivity measurements of the nano- to microsecond dynamics of a fully reversible, light-induced, surface-assisted metallization of gallium interfaced with silica are reported. The metallization leads to a considerable increase in the interface's reflectivity when solid α-gallium is on the verge of melting. The reflectivity change was found to be a cumulative effect that grows with light intensity and pulse duration. The reflectivity relaxes back to that of α-gallium when the excitation is withdrawn in a time that increases critically at gallium's melting point. It is shown that thermal processes cannot account for the effect and so a mechanism based on a nonthermal light-induced structural phase transition is proposed.
nonlinear optics, optical properties, thin films, gallium
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Albanis, V.
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MacDonald, K.F.
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4 April 2001
Albanis, V.
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Fedotov, V.A.
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MacDonald, K.F.
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Zheludev, N.I.
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Petropoulos, P.
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Richardson, D.J.
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Emelyanov, V.I.
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Albanis, V., Dhanjal, S., Fedotov, V.A., MacDonald, K.F., Zheludev, N.I., Petropoulos, P., Richardson, D.J. and Emelyanov, V.I.
(2001)
Nanosecond dynamics of a gallium mirror's light-induced reflectivity change.
Physical Review B, 63 (16), .
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.63.165207).
Abstract
Transient pump-probe optical reflectivity measurements of the nano- to microsecond dynamics of a fully reversible, light-induced, surface-assisted metallization of gallium interfaced with silica are reported. The metallization leads to a considerable increase in the interface's reflectivity when solid α-gallium is on the verge of melting. The reflectivity change was found to be a cumulative effect that grows with light intensity and pulse duration. The reflectivity relaxes back to that of α-gallium when the excitation is withdrawn in a time that increases critically at gallium's melting point. It is shown that thermal processes cannot account for the effect and so a mechanism based on a nonthermal light-induced structural phase transition is proposed.
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Published date: 4 April 2001
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nonlinear optics, optical properties, thin films, gallium
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