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Avtometriya

2016 year, number 2

Femtosecond Kinetics of Reflection of Mirrors with Saturable Absorption

G. M. Borisov1,2, V. G. Gol’dort1, A. A. Kovalyov1, D. V. Ledovskikh1, N. N. Rubtsova1
1Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Lavrent’eva 13, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
2Novosibirsk State University, ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
Keywords: квантовые ямы, полупроводниковые зеркала, насыщение поглощения, пассивная синхронизация, quantum wells, semiconductor mirrors, saturable absorption, passive mode locking
Pages: 148-152

Abstract

The kinetics of mirrors with saturable absorption is investigated by a pump-probe singlefrequency technique in reflection of femtosecond pulse radiation with the central wavelength of 1040 nm. The double modulation method with probe radiation detection at the summary frequency allows suppressing the scattered pump radiation contribution and reaching the reflection change sensitivity at a level of 10-5. The kinetics of recovery of the linear reflectivity of the mirror including resonant quantum wells with nanostructured barriers is studied for the surface density of photons in pump pulses of (0.3-5.8) x 1014 cm-2. The time of electron-hole recombination (7.8 ps) is found to be appreciably shorter than in samples with quantum wells separated by thick barriers; the time of ionization of excitons localized in quantum wells (0.2-0.4 ps) increases with the pump intensity.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3103/S8756699016020060