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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 64, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.081202
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We describe an experimental investigation of the generation and detection of picosecond acoustic-phonon pulses in a thin slab of GaAs using ultrashort optical pulses. Comparison of the optical phase variation with a simple theory for ambipolar diffusion indicates that carrier diffusion has a significant effect on the shape of the phonon pulses generated. The phonon pulse duration is measured to be similar to 25 ps, four times longer than that expected from optical-absorption considerations alone, indicating that hot carriers penetrate more than 100 nm into the sample during the phonon pulse generation process.
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