Ultrafast Lattice-Bonding Dynamics in Tellurium

Presentation Date: 

Tuesday, May 21, 2002

Location: 

CLEO/QELS 2002 (Long Beach, CA)

Presentation Slides: 

We measure the ordinary and extraordinary dielectric function of Te with femtosecond time resolution after coherent phonons are generated with an ultrashort laser pulse. The results reveal oscillatory behavior in the bonding-antibonding split at ~ 3 THz.