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- ItemTerahertz radiative coupling and damping in multilayer graphene(Bristol : IOP, 2014) Bowlan, P.; Martinez-Moreno, E.; Reimann, K.; Woerner, M.; Elsaesser, T.The nonlinear interaction between intense terahertz (THz) pulses and epitaxial multilayer graphene is studied by field-resolved THz pump-probe spectroscopy. THz excitation results in a transient induced absorption with decay times of a few picoseconds, much faster than carrier recombination in single graphene layers. The decay times increase with decreasing temperature and increasing amplitude of the excitation. This behaviour originates from the predominant coupling of electrons to the electromagnetic field via the very strong interband dipole moment while scattering processes with phonons and impurities play a minor role. The nonlinear response at field amplitudes above 1 kV cm-1 is in the carrier-wave Rabi flopping regime with a pronounced coupling of the graphene layers via the radiation field. Theoretical calculations account for the experimental results.
- ItemThe role of the Kramers-Henneberger atom in the higher-order Kerr effect(Bristol : IOP, 2013) Richter, M.; Patchkovskii, S.; Morales, F.; Smirnova, O.; Ivanov, M.We discuss the connection between strong-field ionization, saturation of the Kerr response and the formation of the Kramers-Henneberger (KH) atom and long-living excitations in intense infrared (IR) external fields. We present a generalized model for the intensity-dependent response of atoms in strong IR laser fields, describing deviations in the nonlinear response at the frequency of the driving field from the standard model. We show that shaping the driving laser pulse allows one to reveal signatures of the excited KH states in the Kerr response of an individual atom.