Photon Energy Dependence of Kerr Rotation in Chalcogenide Superlattices
arXiv:1907.07445 · doi:10.1088/1361-648X/ab2e9f
Abstract
We report on pump-probe based helicity dependent time-resolved Kerr measurements of chalcogenide superlattices, consisting of alternately stacked GeTe and SbTe layers under infrared excitation. The Kerr rotation signal consists of the specular Inverse Faraday effect (SIFE) and the specular optical Kerr effect (SOKE), both of which are found to monotonically increase with decreasing photon energy over a sub-eV energy range. Although the dependence of the SIFE can be attributed to a response function of direct third-order nonlinear susceptibility, the magnitude of the SOKE reflects cascading second-order nonlinear susceptibility resulting from electronic transitions from bulk valence band to interface-originating Dirac states of the superlattice.
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