Skip to main content
OSTI.GOVU.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
 

Generation of coherent phonons by coherent extreme ultraviolet radiation in a transient grating experiment

Journal Article · · Applied Physics Letters
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5048023· OSTI ID:1609310
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [4];  [5];  [3];  [6];  [2];  [3];  [6];  [6];  [7];  [2];  [2];  [8];  [6];  [2];  [2];  [2] more »;  [9];  [5] « less
  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); DOE/OSTI
  2. Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Basovizza, TS (Italy)
  3. Univ. of Bern (Switzerland). Inst. of Applied Physics
  4. Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Basovizza, TS (Italy); Istituto Officina dei Materiali CNR, Basovizza, TS (Italy)
  5. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  6. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
  7. Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland)
  8. Univ. of Trento, Povo, TN (Italy)
  9. CINVESTAV-Unidad Mérida, Yucatán (Mexico)
+ Show Author Affiliations
In this work, we investigate the excitation of coherent acoustic and optical phonons by ultrashort extreme ultraviolet (EUV) pulses produced by a free electron laser. Two crossed femtosecond EUV (wavelength 12.7 nm) pulses are used to excite coherent phonons at a wavelength of 280 nm, which are detected via diffraction of an optical probe beam. Longitudinal and surface acoustic waves are measured in BK-7 glass, diamond, and Bi4Ge3O12; in the latter material, the excitation of a coherent optical phonon mode is also observed. We discuss probing different acoustic modes in reflection and transmission geometries and frequency mixing of surface and bulk acoustic waves in the signal. The use of extreme ultraviolet radiation will allow the creation of tunable GHz to THz acoustic sources in any material without the need to fabricate transducer structures.
Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
European Research Council (ERC); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-00ER15087; FG02-99ER14982
OSTI ID:
1609310
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1686153
OSTI ID: 1907876
Journal Information:
Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 22 Vol. 113; ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (45)

X-Ray Interactions: Photoabsorption, Scattering, Transmission, and Reflection at E = 50-30,000 eV, Z = 1-92 journal July 1993
Infrared and Raman study of the optical phonons in Bi4Ge3O12 single crystal journal November 1976
Soft x-ray induced femtosecond solid-to-solid phase transition journal September 2017
Physical mechanisms of coherent acoustic phonons generation by ultrafast laser action journal February 2015
X-Rays and Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation book November 2016
Full Characterization of the Mechanical Properties of 11–50 nm Ultrathin Films: Influence of Network Connectivity on the Poisson’s Ratio journal March 2017
Picosecond–milliångström lattice dynamics measured by ultrafast X-ray diffraction journal March 1999
Femtosecond X-ray measurement of coherent lattice vibrations near the Lindemann stability limit journal March 2003
Four-wave mixing experiments with extreme ultraviolet transient gratings journal April 2015
Widely tunable two-colour seeded free-electron laser source for resonant-pump resonant-probe magnetic scattering journal January 2016
X-ray pump optical probe cross-correlation study of GaAs journal January 2012
Two-stage seeded soft-X-ray free-electron laser journal October 2013
Fourier-transform inelastic X-ray scattering from time- and momentum-dependent phonon–phonon correlations journal October 2013
Observation of strong nonlinear interactions in parametric down-conversion of X-rays into ultraviolet radiation journal December 2019
Four-wave-mixing experiments with seeded free electron lasers journal January 2016
Microwave Frequency Acoustic Surface‐Wave Loss Mechanisms on LiNbO 3 journal October 1970
Complete thin film mechanical characterization using picosecond ultrasonics and nanostructured transducers: experimental demonstration on SiO2 journal August 2008
Diamond’s elastic stiffnesses from 322 K to 10 K journal September 2008
High-frequency surface acoustic wave propagation in nanostructures characterized by coherent extreme ultraviolet beams journal March 2009
Optical generation of tunable ultrasonic waves journal February 1982
Impulsive stimulated scattering: General importance in femtosecond laser pulse interactions with matter, and spectroscopic applications journal December 1985
Picosecond–microsecond structural relaxation dynamics in polypropylene glycol: Impulsive stimulated light‐scattering experiments journal June 1991
Frequency tunable surface magneto elastic waves journal May 2015
Increase in elastic anisotropy of single crystal tungsten upon He-ion implantation measured with laser-generated surface acoustic waves journal October 2016
Observation of femtosecond X-ray interactions with matter using an X-ray–X-ray pump–probe scheme journal January 2016
Growth, Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Bi 4 Si 3 O 12 Single Crystals journal July 2012
Coherent optical phonon generation in Bi 3 Ge 4 O 12 journal September 2011
Theory for displacive excitation of coherent phonons journal January 1992
Picosecond surface acoustic waves using a suboptical wavelength absorption grating journal October 2002
Direct observation of non-fully-symmetric coherent optical phonons by femtosecond x-ray diffraction journal February 2013
Generation mechanism of terahertz coherent acoustic phonons in Fe journal June 2016
Long-lived nonthermal electron distribution in aluminum excited by femtosecond extreme ultraviolet radiation journal August 2017
Direct Measurement of Room-Temperature Nondiffusive Thermal Transport Over Micron Distances in a Silicon Membrane journal January 2013
Interaction of a Contact Resonance of Microspheres with Surface Acoustic Waves journal July 2013
Second Harmonic Generation of Nanoscale Phonon Wave Packets journal November 2015
Spatiotemporal Coherent Control of Thermal Excitations in Solids journal August 2017
Generation of coherent magnons in NiO stimulated by EUV pulses from a seeded free-electron laser journal December 2017
Multipurpose end-station for coherent diffraction imaging and scattering at FERMI@Elettra free-electron laser facility journal April 2015
Attenuation of acoustic waves in lithium niobate journal March 1981
Coherent Atomic Motions in a Nanostructure Studied by Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction journal December 2004
Optical Generation and Characterization of Acoustic Waves in Thin Films: Fundamentals and Applications journal August 2000
Impulsive stimulated Raman scattering: comparison between phase-sensitive and spectrally filtered techniques journal January 2005
Direct Measurement of Room Temperature Non-diffusive Thermal Transport Over Micron Distances in a Silicon Membrane text January 2012
Interaction of a Contact Resonance of Microspheres with Surface Acoustic Waves text January 2013
Soft x-rays induce femtosecond solid-to-solid phase transition text January 2016

Cited By (5)

Nonlinear XUV-optical transient grating spectroscopy at the Si L 2,3 –edge journal May 2019
Exploring the multiparameter nature of EUV-visible wave mixing at the FERMI FEL journal July 2019
Full Spatiotemporal Control of Laser-Excited Periodic Surface Deformations journal August 2019
Nanoscale transient gratings excited and probed by extreme ultraviolet femtosecond pulses journal July 2019
Full spatiotemporal control of laser-excited periodic surface deformations text January 2019

Similar Records

Excitation and detection of coherent nanoscale spin waves via extreme ultraviolet transient gratings
Journal Article · Thu Sep 05 20:00:00 EDT 2024 · Science Advances · OSTI ID:2579982

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
Physics
extreme ultraviolet radiation
free electron lasers
gratings
lattice dynamics
optical phase matching
phonons
surface acoustic waves
thermal effects
wave mechanics