Detection of shorter-than-skin-depth acoustic pulses in a metal film via transient reflectivity
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Klieber, Christoph; Shalagatskyi, V.; Temnov, V. V.; Makarov, D.; Baek, S.-H.; Eom, Chang-Beom; Manke, Kara Jean; Maznev, Alexei; Nelson, Keith Adam; ... Show more Show less
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Measurement of Shorter-Than-Skin-Depth Acoustic Pulses in a Metal Film Via Transient Reflectivity
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The detection of ultrashort laser-generated acoustic pulses at a metal surface and the reconstruction of the acoustic strain profile are investigated. A 2 ps-long acoustic pulse generated in an SrRuO[subscript 3] layer propagates through an adjacent gold layer and is detected at its surface by a reflected probe pulse. We show that the intricate shape of the transient reflectivity waveform and the ability to resolve acoustic pulses shorter than the optical skin depth are controlled by a single parameter, which is determined by the ratio of the real and imaginary parts of the photoelastic constant of the material. We also demonstrate a Fourier transform-based algorithm that can be used to extract acoustic strain profiles from transient reflectivity measurements.
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2013-10Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of ChemistryJournal
Applied Physics Letters
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
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Manke, K. J., A. A. Maznev, C. Klieber, V. Shalagatskyi, V. V. Temnov, D. Makarov, S.-H. Baek, C.-B. Eom, and K. A. Nelson. “Measurement of Shorter-Than-Skin-Depth Acoustic Pulses in a Metal Film via Transient Reflectivity.” Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, no. 17 (2013): 173104.
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00036951
1077-3118