Recombination kinetics of a dense electron-hole plasma in strontium titanate

Abstract

We investigated the nanosecond-scale time decay of the blue-green light emitted by nominally pure SrTiO${}_3$ following the absorption of an intense picosecond laser pulse generating a high density of electron-hole pairs. Two independent components are identified in the fluorescence signal that show a different dynamics with varying excitation intensity, and which can be respectively modeled as a bimolecular and unimolecolar process. An interpretation of the observed recombination kinetics in terms of interacting electron and hole polarons is proposed.

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