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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 18: Light-Induced Phenomena

CPP 18.2: Talk

Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 14:45–15:00, H40

Laser-induced phonon-phonon interactions in bismuth — •Eeuwe Sieds Zijlstra and Martin Garcia — Theoretische Physik, Fachbereich Naturwissenschaften, Universität Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany

We compute laser-induced interactions between coherent phonons in bismuth and demonstrate that they are key to understanding important experiments performed with intense femtosecond laser pulses. In particular, we find mixing signals and higher harmonics arising from the coupling between phonons of different and the same symmetries, respectively. We show that the phonon-phonon interaction is strongly dependent on the laser fluence and is for that reason only observable when sufficiently strong laser pulses are used. Our results offer a unified description of the different experimental observations performed so far on bismuth.