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Generation of coherent phonons in opaque crystals: A radio engineering analogy

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A model is proposed for generating coherent phonons by ultrashort laser pulses in opaque crystals. The model is based on the radio engineering analogy with two coupled RLC circuits, of which the first circuit corresponds to the electronic subsystem of the crystal and the second circuit corresponds to the lattice sub-system. It is demonstrated that this analogy makes it possible to describe a number of characteristic properties of coherent phonons and facilitates the separation of the contributions from the nonequilibrium charge carriers and the coherent lattice dynamics to the time-resolved reflection signal in opaque crystals.

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Original Russian Text © M.V. Lebedev, O.V. Misochko, 2009, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2009, Vol. 51, No. 9, pp. 1735–1744.

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Lebedev, M.V., Misochko, O.V. Generation of coherent phonons in opaque crystals: A radio engineering analogy. Phys. Solid State 51, 1843–1852 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783409090133

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