2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Spatial visualization of electron wavefunctions and acoustic phonon transduction in semiconductor quantum wells and related applications
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13852006
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Applied optics/Quantum optical engineering
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| Research Institution | HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
WRIGHT Oliver B. Hokkaido Univ., Grand.School of Eng., Prof., 大学院・工学研究科, 教授 (90281790)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MATSUDA Osamu Hokkaido Univ., Grand.School of Eng., Associate Prof., 大学院・工学研究科, 助教授 (30239024)
TOMODA Motonobu Hokkaido Univ., Grand.School of Eng., Instructor, 大学院・工学研究科, 助手 (30344485)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2005
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| Keywords | semiconductor quantum well structure / electron wavefunction / pump-probe spectroscopy / sub-THz acoustic phonon / electron-phonon interaction / ultrafast phenomena / inhomogeneous multilayer / laser picosecond acoustics |
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| Research Abstract |
1)THz phonon generation and detection experiments were done on 2-well and 3-well GaAs/GaAlAs samples with surface-absorbed probe optical pulses and wavelength-tuned pump optical pulses. These first spectroscopic experiments in the domain of picosecond acoustics (up to 0.3 THz) were successfully treated with theoretical models to describe the phonon generation and detection in these multilayers. We also characterized the spectral generation efficiency.
2)Improvements in temporal and spatial resolution were achieved using shorter (〜400 fs) optical pulses to demonstrate detection at frequencies up to 0.5 THz. We also developed a new optical-polarization-sensitive oblique-incidence technique, tested on Cr, to separate different signal contributions, and modelled the phonon pulse shapes for this sample.
3)A Novel ultrafast Sagnac interferometer was developed for picosecond phonon detection with 1 μm spatial resolution, applicable to semiconductors, involving a single focusing objective.
4)Bulk GaAs picosecond acoustics was implemented to help interpret the quantum well results, we investigated ultrafast phonon generation in 3 different GaAs samples. We demonstrate the generation of picosecond shear pulses using anisotropic cuts and pulse-broadening by electron diffusion.
5)A novel detection scheme based photoluminescence was extensively tested on quantum well samples. The results show that we require a higher detection sensitivity to achieve detection of phonon -pulses detection within a quantum well rather than at the surface.
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Research Products
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