Ultrafast excitation of coherent phonons in iron garnet.
We employed a femtosecond pump-probe technique to investigate the dynamics of coherent phonons in iron garnet. A phenomenological symmetry-based theory reveals that oscillations of the terahertz Eg mode are excited. Selective excitation by a linearly polarized pump and detection by a circularly polarized probe confirm that impulsive stimulated Raman scattering (ISRS) is the driving force for the coherent phonons. Experimental results obtained from ISRS measurements show an excellent agreement with spontaneous Raman spectroscopy data, analyzed by considering the symmetry of the phonon modes and corresponding excitation and detection selection rules.
Publisher URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04515
DOI: arXiv:1802.04515v1
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