Optical heating of electron-hole plasma in silicon by picosecond pulses
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 44 (1) , 3-5
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.94543
Abstract
Using a novel three-pulse technique, essential information about the density, optical effective mass, and kinetics of laser-generated plasmas in silicon has been obtained.Keywords
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