Abstract
A picosecond study of ultrahigh-frequency acoustic phonons in specifically engineered GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs periodic multilayer structures is presented. The lattice-matched boundary conditions for photothermal acoustic generation and optical properties of these materials make these structures ideal for sound-wave generation in the 100 GHz to THz range. The acoustics are generated using ultrashort-laser-pulse excitation and detected in real time by measuring the strain-induced change in reflectivity with the pump-probe technique. By using 12 nJ, 90 fs pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser source, the generation and detection of ∼50 GHz acoustics in a 6-bilayer, [001]-oriented GaAs/Al0.4Ga0.6As structure, 500 Å thickness per layer, on a GaAs substrate, are successfully demonstrated. The structure was specifically designed to give the maximum sensitivity to the acoustics through étalon-induced modulations in the reflectivity spectrum. With similarly designed multilayer structures, the upper frequency limit can be achieved for the thermoelastic generation of coherent acoustic phonons, that is, ∼300 GHz in GaAs for ∼1 eV above band-gap-energy photons.
References
67
Referenced
34
10.1063/1.1729258
/ J. Appl. Phys. (1963)10.1063/1.1656010
/ J. Appl. Phys. (1968)10.1121/1.1912458
/ J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (1971)10.1063/1.322296
/ J. Appl. Phys. (1976)10.1063/1.89375
/ Appl. Phys. Lett. (1977)10.1121/1.385470
/ J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (1981)10.1063/1.92476
/ Appl. Phys. Lett. (1981){'key': '2024020212150982400_r8', 'first-page': 'C6', 'volume': '44', 'year': '1983', 'journal-title': 'J. Phys. (Paris) Colloq.'}
/ J. Phys. (Paris) Colloq. (1983){'key': '2024020212150982400_r9'}
{'key': '2024020212150982400_r10'}
10.1121/1.400306
/ J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (1990){'key': '2024020212150982400_r12', 'first-page': 'C10', 'year': '1985', 'journal-title': 'J. Phys. (Paris), Colloq.'}
/ J. Phys. (Paris), Colloq. (1985){'key': '2024020212150982400_r13'}
{'key': '2024020212150982400_r14', 'first-page': '2562', 'volume': 'QE-25', 'year': '1989', 'journal-title': 'IEEE J. Quantum Electron.'}
/ IEEE J. Quantum Electron. (1989){'key': '2024020212150982400_r15'}
{'key': '2024020212150982400_r16'}
10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.989
/ Phys. Rev. Lett. (1984){'key': '2024020212150982400_r18', 'first-page': '68', 'volume': '34', 'year': '1986', 'journal-title': 'Phys. Rev. B'}
/ Phys. Rev. B (1986)10.1063/1.100309
/ Appl. Phys. Lett. (1988)10.1063/1.100253
/ Appl. Phys. Lett. (1988)10.1103/PhysRevB.44.4281
/ Phys. Rev. B (1991)10.1063/1.351218
/ J. Appl. Phys. (1992)10.1103/PhysRevB.33.2144
/ Phys. Rev. B (1986)10.1063/1.337642
/ J. Appl. Phys. (1986)10.1063/1.98077
/ Appl. Phys. Lett. (1987)10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.2356
/ Phys. Rev. Lett. (1988)10.1063/1.103521
/ Appl. Phys. Lett. (1990)10.1063/1.1651832
/ Appl. Phys. Lett. (1968)10.1063/1.1653253
/ Appl. Phys. Lett. (1970)10.1016/0301-0104(82)85134-3
/ Chem. Phys. (1982){'key': '2024020212150982400_r31', 'first-page': '6066', 'volume': '38', 'year': '1988', 'journal-title': 'Phys. Rev. B'}
/ Phys. Rev. B (1988)10.1147/rd.141.0061
/ IBM J. Res. Div. (1970){'key': '2024020212150982400_r33', 'first-page': '1611', 'volume': 'QE-22', 'year': '1986', 'journal-title': 'IEEE J. Quantum Electron.'}
/ IEEE J. Quantum Electron. (1986){'key': '2024020212150982400_r34'}
10.1080/00018738900101102
/ Adv. Phys. (1989)10.1103/PhysRevB.17.3181
/ Phys. Rev. B (1978)10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.298
/ Phys. Rev. Lett. (1980)10.1016/0038-1098(83)90862-1
/ Solid State Commun. (1983)10.1103/PhysRevB.28.2007
/ Phys. Rev. B (1983)10.1103/PhysRevB.31.2080
/ Phys. Rev. B (1985)10.1103/PhysRevB.36.4858
/ Phys. Rev. B (1987){'key': '2024020212150982400_r42'}
10.1143/JJAP.31.816
/ Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. (1992){'key': '2024020212150982400_r44'}
{'key': '2024020212150982400_r45'}
{'key': '2024020212150982400_r46'}
{'key': '2024020212150982400_r47'}
{'key': '2024020212150982400_r48'}
10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.2012
/ Phys. Rev. Lett. (1979){'key': '2024020212150982400_r50'}
{'key': '2024020212150982400_r51', 'first-page': '734', 'volume': '45', 'year': '1992', 'journal-title': 'Phys. Rev. B'}
/ Phys. Rev. B (1992){'key': '2024020212150982400_r52', 'first-page': '13', 'volume': '45', 'year': '1992', 'journal-title': 'Phys. Rev. B'}
/ Phys. Rev. B (1992){'key': '2024020212150982400_r53'}
10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.2151
/ Phys. Rev. Lett. (1985){'key': '2024020212150982400_r55', 'first-page': '68', 'volume': '2', 'year': '1956', 'journal-title': 'Sov. Phys. Acoust.'}
/ Sov. Phys. Acoust. (1956)10.1063/1.331665
/ J. Appl. Phys. (1982)10.1063/1.336070
/ J. Appl. Phys. (1985){'key': '2024020212150982400_r58'}
{'key': '2024020212150982400_r58a'}
{'key': '2024020212150982400_r59'}
{'key': '2024020212150982400_r60'}
{'key': '2024020212150982400_r61'}
{'key': '2024020212150982400_r62'}
10.1063/1.1142109
/ Rev. Sci. Instrum. (1991)10.1049/el:19850394
/ Electron. Lett. (1985)10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.1757
/ Phys. Rev. Lett. (1991)10.1063/1.102734
/ Appl. Phys. Lett. (1990)
Dates
Type | When |
---|---|
Created | 23 years ago (July 26, 2002, 9:15 a.m.) |
Deposited | 1 year, 6 months ago (Feb. 2, 2024, 7:56 a.m.) |
Indexed | 1 year, 6 months ago (Feb. 6, 2024, 7:49 a.m.) |
Issued | 31 years, 5 months ago (March 15, 1994) |
Published | 31 years, 5 months ago (March 15, 1994) |
Published Print | 31 years, 5 months ago (March 15, 1994) |
@article{Bass_ras_1994, title={Optical generation of high-frequency acoustic waves in GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs periodic multilayer structures}, volume={75}, ISSN={1089-7550}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.356214}, DOI={10.1063/1.356214}, number={6}, journal={Journal of Applied Physics}, publisher={AIP Publishing}, author={Basséras, P. and Gracewski, S. M. and Wicks, G. W. and Miller, R. J. D.}, year={1994}, month=mar, pages={2761–2768} }