Multiphoton generation of electron–hole pairs accompanying the resonance optical Stark effect

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Перлин Е.Ю., Бондарев М.А. Многофотонная генерация электронно-дырочных пар при резонансном оптическом штарк-эффекте // Оптический журнал. 2013. Т. 80. № 11. С. 24–31.

Perlin E. Yu., Bondarev M. A. Multiphoton generation of electron–hole pairs accompanying the resonance optical Stark effect [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2013. V. 80. № 11. P. 24–31.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

M. A. Bondarev and E. Yu. Perlin, "Multiphoton generation of electron–hole pairs accompanying the resonance optical Stark effect," Journal of Optical Technology. 80(11), 661-666 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.80.000661

Abstract:

General expressions obtained earlier for nonlinear photogeneration rates of electron–hole pairs (EHPs) under conditions of n-photon–one-photon resonance on adjacent interband transitions are used to analyze manifestations of the resonance optical Stark effect in the case n=4. Because of the appearance of new Van Hove singularities in the electronic band spectrum reconstructed in the field of a strong electromagnetic wave, the multiphoton EHP-generation rate W<sup>(4)</sup> is a nonmonotonic function of radiation intensity j and includes a region of extremely rapid growth, in which a small change of j causes W<sup>(4)</sup> to increase by several orders of magnitude.

Keywords:

multiphoton transitions, wide-band crystals, optical strike effect, rearrangement of the electronic zone spectrum, van hov singularities

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