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    First Terahertz-range Experiments on Pump – Probe Setup at Novosibirsk free Electron Laser
    (Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, 2016) Choporova, Yulia Yu.; Gerasimov, Vasily V.; Knyazev, Boris A.; Sergeev, Sergey M.; Shevchenko, Oleg A.; Zhukavin, Roman K.; Abrosimov, Nikolay V.; Kovalevsky, Konstantin A.; Ovchar, Vladimir K.; Hübers, Heinz-Wilhelm; Kulipanov, Gennady N.; Shastin, Valery N.; Schneider, Harald; Vinokurov, Nikolay A.
    A single-color pump-probe system has been commissioned at the Novosibirsk free electron laser. The laser emits a tunable monochromatic terahertz radiation. To prove the proper system operation, we investigated the time-resolved absorption of a sample of n-type germanium doped with antimony, which was previously investigated at the FELBE facility, in the temperature range from 5 to 40 K. The measured relaxation time amounted to about 1.7 ns, which agreed with the results obtained at the FELBE. The results of pump-probe measurements of non-equilibrium dynamics of hot electrons in the germanium crystal at cryogenic temperatures are presented for wavelengths of 105, 141 and 150 μm.
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    Spectral dynamics of shift current in ferroelectric semiconductor SbSI
    (Washington : National Academy of Sciences, 2019) Sotome, M.; Nakamura, M.; Fujioka, J.; Ogino, M.; Kaneko, Y.; Morimoto, T.; Zhang, Y.; Kawasaki, M.; Nagaosa, N.; Tokura, Y.; Ogawa, N.
    Photoexcitation in solids brings about transitions of electrons/ holes between different electronic bands. If the solid lacks an inversion symmetry, these electronic transitions support spontaneous photocurrent due to the geometric phase of the constituting electronic bands: the Berry connection. This photocurrent, termed shift current, is expected to emerge on the timescale of primary photoexcitation process. We observe ultrafast evolution of the shift current in a prototypical ferroelectric semiconductor antimony sulfur iodide (SbSI) by detecting emitted terahertz electromagnetic waves. By sweeping the excitation photon energy across the bandgap, ultrafast electron dynamics as a source of terahertz emission abruptly changes its nature, reflecting a contribution of Berry connection on interband optical transition. The shift excitation carries a net charge flow and is followed by a swing over of the electron cloud on a subpicosecond timescale. Understanding these substantive characters of the shift current with the help of first-principles calculation will pave the way for its application to ultrafast sensors and solar cells.