Optical manipulation of 40-THz coherent phonons in diamond

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Abstract

Coherent optical phonons in bulk solid system play a crucial role in understanding and designing light-matter interactions. In this study, we demonstrated coherent control of the 40-THz optical phonons in a single crystal diamond using a pair of sub-10-fs laser pulses and a pump and probe protocol. We detected the coherent phonon oscillation via change in transmitted light intensity of the probe pulse with heterodyne detection. The phonon amplitude was coherently controlled by changing the delay between two pump pulses from 230 fs to 270 fs with 0.5-fs precession. The control scheme was well explained by interference between two phonon states excited by each pump pulse.

*This work was supported in part by Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), JST ERATO (Grant No. JPMJER1601), JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 15H02103, 15K13377, 16K05410, 17K19051, and 17H02797, Collaborative Research Project of Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Joint Studies Program of Institute for Molecular Science.

Presenters

  • Yasuaki Okano

    • Center for Mesoscopic Sciences, Institute for Molecular Science

Authors

  • Yasuaki Okano

    • Center for Mesoscopic Sciences, Institute for Molecular Science

  • Hiroya Sasaki

    • Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Riho Tanaka

    • Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Kazuma Ohya

    • Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Hiroshi Takahashi

    • Department of Physics, Tokyo University of Science

  • Tetsuya Tsuruta

    • Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Shin-ichi Uozumi

    • Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Katsura Norimatsu

    • Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Masahiro Kitajima

    • Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Fujio Minami

    • Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Yosuke Kayanuma

    • Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Yutaka Shikano

    • Quantum Computing Center, Keio University

  • Kazutaka G Nakamura

    • Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Tokyo Institute of Technology