Repetition of the shape of the ultrafast self-modulation of the optical absorption spectrum upon varying the energy of pulse of GaAs pumping

Abstract

Ultrafast self-modulation of the fundamental optical absorption emerges during intense picosecond optical pumping of GaAs and, according to the main assumption, reflects self-oscillations of depletion of electron populations in the conduction band. In this study, the quantitatively confirmed explanation of previously experimentally found cyclic repetition of the form of ultrafast self-modulation of the absorption spectrum upon varying the energy of the pumping pulse and fixed delay between pumping and probing (the measurement of absorption) is given. Repetition of the shape is explained by varying the phase of self-oscillations of the optical absorption. The explanation is based on the previously found experimentally dependence of the frequency of self-oscillations of absorption on the pumping energy. Therefore, this is also a new confirmation of the mentioned dependence (which satisfactorily coincides with a similar calculated dependence of the frequency of self-oscillations of depletion of populations).