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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 120, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0092113
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-17-CE11-0020-01]
- Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine [2016-1R-60301]
- Universite de Bordeaux
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In this study, a periodic stack of nanometric layers made of gold and lithium fluoride was used to amplify the strain generated by the photo-thermal effect. It was found that using this composite structure resulted in a 20-fold amplification of the signal.
Structures made of a metallic film deposited on a substrate are conventionally used as opto-acoustic transducers for picosecond ultrasonic experiments where detection in the time domain of the Brillouin scattering in a transparent sample is sought. In this paper, we substitute the metallic film for a periodic stack of nanometric layers made of gold and lithium fluoride to increase the amplitude, at the Brillouin frequency shift, of the strain generated by the photo-thermal effect. A model is used to analyze the generated strain amplification with the volume fraction and with the total thickness of this structure and to evaluate the gain in terms of sample dynamic reflectivity changes. Amplification by a factor of 20 is measured when using the composite structure with respect to signals detected with a transducer made of a single gold layer. Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.
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